Hi
Can anyone tell me how to pad zeroes on the left side to a numeric string in unix shell scripting
Your answer is very much appreciated
Thanks
Vijay (2 Replies)
Is there a function in c that will allow me to pad variables?
I have an int that can't be longer than 10. I need to pad a numeric value with leading zeros
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0000000314 (1 Reply)
I have a file with different character counts on each line
how do i make it with unique character counts.
example:
1st line : ABCD 011 XYZ 0000 YYYY BBB TEADINGDA
2nd line: ABCD 011 xys 0010 YYYY BBB TEAD
3rd line : ABCD 022 YXU 000 UUU BBB TE
1st line is 43... (3 Replies)
I have a file with records containing dates like:
SMPBR|DUP-DO NOT USE|NEW YORK||16105|BA5270715|2007-6-6|MWERNER|109||||JOHN||SMITH|MD|72211118||||||74559|21 WILMINGTON RD||D|2003-11-6|SL# MD CONTACT-LIZ RICHARDS|||0|Y|N||1411458|
How can I get the date fields in each of my records to be... (1 Reply)
Hi Friends,
I would like to left pad with "0's" on first column say (width six)
I have a large file with the format:
FILE:
1: ALFRED 84378 NY
8385: JAMES 88385 FL
323: SMITH 00850 TX
My output needs to be like:
000001: ALFRED 84378 NY
008385: JAMES 88385 FL
000323: SMITH... (10 Replies)
Hello,
I want to get the User Name details of a user from a file list.
This list can be in the format:
FirstName_MiddleName1_LastName_ID
FirstName_LastName_ID
FirstName_MiddleName1_MiddleName2_LastName_ID
What i want it to return is FirstName_MiddleName1_LastName of a user.
I... (6 Replies)
So I have 2 files:
File 1:
111,Mike,Stipe
222,Peter,Buck
333,Mike,Mills
File 2:
222,Mr,Bono
444,Mr,Edge
I want output to be below, where 222 records joined and all none joined records still in output
111,Mike,Stipe
222,Peter,Buck,Mr,Bono
333,Mike,Mills
444,Mr,Edge (4 Replies)
Hello All,
I have this script to awk IP to new file.
#awk '/myip|yourip/ {sub(/...\....\....\..../, newip)}1' newip=$IP existing.txt > new.txt
When existing.txt has myip=192.168.123.123 and $IP has 192.168.12.12, the awk script is not working. But while I add zero left padding to $IP i.e,... (3 Replies)
I have this csv file that I would like to sort on the 20th and 21st field. They are high lighted below. My challenge is that when I sort on those fields they are not in order as I would have liked. It seems like I have to pad those fields to the longest value in that fields data.
... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: GroveTuckey
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
substr
SUBSTR(3) 1 SUBSTR(3)substr - Return part of a stringSYNOPSIS
string substr (string $string, int $start, [int $length])
DESCRIPTION
Returns the portion of $string specified by the $start and $length parameters.
PARAMETERS
o $string
- The input string. Must be one character or longer.
o $start
- If $start is non-negative, the returned string will start at the $start'th position in $string, counting from zero. For
instance, in the string ' abcdef', the character at position 0 is ' a', the character at position 2 is ' c', and so forth. If
$start is negative, the returned string will start at the $start'th character from the end of $string. If $string is less than or
equal to $start characters long, FALSE will be returned.
Example #1
Using a negative $start
<?php
$rest = substr("abcdef", -1); // returns "f"
$rest = substr("abcdef", -2); // returns "ef"
$rest = substr("abcdef", -3, 1); // returns "d"
?>
o $length
- If $length is given and is positive, the string returned will contain at most $length characters beginning from $start (depend-
ing on the length of $string). If $length is given and is negative, then that many characters will be omitted from the end of
$string (after the start position has been calculated when a $start is negative). If $start denotes the position of this trunca-
tion or beyond, false will be returned. If $length is given and is 0, FALSE or NULL, an empty string will be returned. If
$length is omitted, the substring starting from $start until the end of the string will be returned.
Example #2
Using a negative $length
<?php
$rest = substr("abcdef", 0, -1); // returns "abcde"
$rest = substr("abcdef", 2, -1); // returns "cde"
$rest = substr("abcdef", 4, -4); // returns false
$rest = substr("abcdef", -3, -1); // returns "de"
?>
RETURN VALUES
Returns the extracted part of $string; or FALSE on failure, or an empty string.
CHANGELOG
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
|5.2.2 - 5.2.6 | |
| | |
| | If the $start parameter indicates the position |
| | of a negative truncation or beyond, false is |
| | returned. Other versions get the string from |
| | start. |
| | |
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #3
Basic substr(3) usage
<?php
echo substr('abcdef', 1); // bcdef
echo substr('abcdef', 1, 3); // bcd
echo substr('abcdef', 0, 4); // abcd
echo substr('abcdef', 0, 8); // abcdef
echo substr('abcdef', -1, 1); // f
// Accessing single characters in a string
// can also be achieved using "square brackets"
$string = 'abcdef';
echo $string[0]; // a
echo $string[3]; // d
echo $string[strlen($string)-1]; // f
?>
Example #4
substr(3) casting behaviour
<?php
class apple {
public function __toString() {
return "green";
}
}
echo "1) ".var_export(substr("pear", 0, 2), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "2) ".var_export(substr(54321, 0, 2), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "3) ".var_export(substr(new apple(), 0, 2), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "4) ".var_export(substr(true, 0, 1), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "5) ".var_export(substr(false, 0, 1), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "6) ".var_export(substr("", 0, 1), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "7) ".var_export(substr(1.2e3, 0, 4), true).PHP_EOL;
?>
The above example will output:
1) 'pe'
2) '54'
3) 'gr'
4) '1'
5) false
6) false
7) '1200'
ERRORS /EXCEPTIONS
Returns FALSE on error.
Example #5
<?php
var_dump(substr('a', 1)); // bool(false)
?>
SEE ALSO strrchr(3), substr_replace(3), preg_match(3), trim(3), mb_substr(3), wordwrap(3), String access and modification by character.
PHP Documentation Group SUBSTR(3)