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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing nth occurrence Post 302585575 by tarun_agrawal on Wednesday 28th of December 2011 09:46:54 PM
Old 12-28-2011
Code:
echo "abc|def|ghi|jkl|mno|pqr|stu|vwx|yz" | 
awk -vFS=''  '{ 
 for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) 
 {   
   if(j==3)
   { 
       $i=$i"\n";j=0;
   } 
   printf("%s", $i); 
   if($i=="|") 
   {
     j++
   }  
 }  
              }
END{ print "\n"}  '

Last edited by Franklin52; 12-29-2011 at 10:37 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
 

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tt_message_abstainer(library call)										tt_message_abstainer(library call)

NAME

       tt_message_abstainer -- return offer's nth abstaining procid

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Tt/tt_c.h>
       char *tt_message_abstainer(
       Tt_message m,
       int n);

DESCRIPTION

       The tt_message_abstainer function returns the procid of the nth abstainer of the specified message.

       The  m  argument  is  the  opaque  handle  for the message involved in this operation.  The n argument is the number of the abstainer to be
       returned.  The first abstainer is numbered zero.

RETURN VALUE

       Upon successful completion, the tt_message_abstainer  function  returns	the  procid  of  the  nth  abstainer.	The  application  can  use
       tt_ptr_error to extract one of the following Tt_status values from the returned pointer:

       TT_OK	 The operation completed successfully.

       TT_ERR_PROCID
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       TT_ERR_NUM
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       TT_ERR_STATE
		 The  specified  message  is  not  in  state  TT_RETURNED.   Since only TT_OFFERs can be in state TT_RETURNED, this status will be
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       TT_ERR_POINTER
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APPLICATION USAGE

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SEE ALSO

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														tt_message_abstainer(library call)
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