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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Formatting a report using awk Post 302583893 by thaller on Wednesday 21st of December 2011 01:53:54 PM

12-21-2011

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bartus11

The easiest way is inserting space after 3rd column character in all lines. It assumes fixed width fields:

Code:

awk '{print substr($0,1,34),substr($0,35)}' file

Wouldn't that cause the lines without the issue to be double spaced?

Could I use something like this:

Code:

awk '{if (length($3) > 1)<more code>;}' file.txt

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ctsgnb

Maybe you should contact your vendor : adding a space will not tell you wether the field has been truncated or not.

I think this is up to your vendor to ensure that the generated report that is sent to you does not contain truncated values.

Of course, if you are sure that those fields never contain truncated values, then, indeed, you can separate them as per Bartus suggestion.

I'd agree with you normally, but they are a real pain, and turn around time would be lengthy. The actual end purpose would still work out, (dose not need to be exact) the first few place values would suffice.

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