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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find position of character in multiple strings in a file Post 302665101 by Scrutinizer on Monday 2nd of July 2012 03:51:43 AM
Old 07-02-2012
Also to get rid of the spurious space at the end or to be able to specify an output field separator, we could use something like this:
Code:
awk -F? '{p=0; for(i=1;i<NF;i++)s=(i==1?NR ":":s OFS)(p+=length($i)+1)} p{print s}' OFS=", " infile


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XmTextFindStringWcs(3X) 												   XmTextFindStringWcs(3X)

NAME
XmTextFindStringWcs - A Text function that finds the beginning position of a wide character text string SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Text.h> Boolean XmTextFindStringWcs (widget, start, wcstring, direction, position) Widget widget; XmTextPosition start; wchar_t *wcstring; XmTextDirection direction; XmTextPosition *position; DESCRIPTION
XmTextFindStringWcs locates the beginning position of a specified wide character text string. This routine searches forward or backward for the first occurrence of the string, starting from the given start position. If a match is found, the function returns the position of the first character of the string in position. Specifies the Text widget ID. Specifies the character position from which the search pro- ceeds. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the text buffer. The first character position is 0. Specifies the wide character search string. Indicates the search direction. It is relative to the primary direction of the text. The possible values are: The search proceeds toward the end of the buffer. The search proceeds toward the beginning of the buffer. Specifies the pointer in which the first character position of the string match is returned. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the buf- fer. The first character position is 0. If the function returns False, this value is undefined. For a complete definition of Text and its associated resources, see XmText(3X). RETURN VALUE
Returns True if a string match is found; otherwise, returns False. SEE ALSO
XmText(3X), XmTextFindString(3X) XmTextFindStringWcs(3X)
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