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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers look for specific values in a file and rename file with value found Post 302665259 by dssyadav on Monday 2nd of July 2012 08:32:39 AM
Old 07-02-2012
Hi Athix,
the record position can be any where(not the 5th line each time) ...but the string length is always 4 characters..but if string exist it will be from 17th position from start of the line (any of the line)..
 

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mdraw_default_line_break(3m17n) 				 The m17n Library				   mdraw_default_line_break(3m17n)

NAME
mdraw_default_line_break - Calculate a line breaking position. SYNOPSIS
int mdraw_default_line_break (MText * mt, int pos, int from, int to, int line, int y) DESCRIPTION
Calculate a line breaking position. The function mdraw_default_line_break() calculates a line breaking position based on the line number line and the coordinate y, when a line is too long to fit within the width limit. pos is the position of the character next to the last one that fits within the limit. from is the position of the first character of the line, and to is the position of the last character displayed on the line if there were not width limit. line and y are reset to 0 when a line is broken by a newline character, and incremented each time when a long line is broken because of the width limit. RETURN VALUE
This function returns a character position to break the line. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>. Version 1.6.2 12 Jan 2011 mdraw_default_line_break(3m17n)
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