Is there a command that sets a variable length?
I have a input of a variable length field but my output for that field needs to be set to 32 char.
Is there such a command?
I am on a sun box running ksh
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a file :
CSCH74000.00
CSCH74000.00
CSCH74100.00
CSCH74000.00
CSCH74100.00
CSCH74000.00
CSCH74000.00
CSCH74100.00
CSCH74100.00
CSCH74100.00
I have to put a delimiter( say comma) in between after 6th character:
CSCH74,000.00
CSCH74,000.00
CSCH74,100.00 (2 Replies)
Hi experts.
I got a file (500mb max) and need to pivot it (loading into ORCL) and change BLANK delimiter to PIPE |.
Sometimes there are multipel BLANKS (as a particular value may be BLANK, or simply two BLANKS instead of one BLANK).
thanks for your input!
Cheers,
Layout... (3 Replies)
Hi, all.
I need to convert a file tab delimited/variable length file in AIX to a fixed lenght file delimited by spaces. This is the input file:
10200002<tab>US$ COM<tab>16/12/2008<tab>2,3775<tab>2,3783
19300978<tab>EURO<tab>16/12/2008<tab>3,28523<tab>3,28657
And this is the expected... (2 Replies)
Im writing a KSH script to read a simple text file and add a delimiter. Ive written the following script but it runs very slow. I initially used the cut command to substring the input record then switched to this version using awk to substring... both run too slow. Any ideas how to make this more... (2 Replies)
Very, very new to unix scripting and have a unique situation. I have a file of records that contain 3 records types:
(H)eader Records
(D)etail Records
(T)railer Records
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Dear all,
I have basic knowledge of Unix script and her I am trying to process variable length and variable format CSV file.
The file length will depend on the numbers of Earnings/Deductions/Direct Deposits.
And
The format will depend on whether it is Earnings/Deductions or Direct Deposits... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Can anyone help with a effective solution ?
I need to change a variable length text field (between 1 - 18 characters) to a fixed length text of 18 characters with the unused portion, at the end, filled with spaces.
The text field is actually field 10 of a .csv file however I could cut... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a No Delimiter variable length text file with following schema -
Column Name Data length
Firstname 5
Lastname 5
age 3
phoneno1 10
phoneno2 10
phoneno3 10
sample data - ... (16 Replies)
Hi Team,
I have an issue to split the file which is having special chracter(German Char) using awk command.
I have a different length records in a file. I am separating the files based on the length using awk command.
The command is working fine if the record is not having any... (7 Replies)
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bytes
bytes(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide bytes(3pm)NAME
bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics
NOTICE
This pragma reflects early attempts to incorporate Unicode into perl and has since been superseded. It breaks encapsulation (i.e. it
exposes the innards of how the perl executable currently happens to store a string), and use of this module for anything other than
debugging purposes is strongly discouraged. If you feel that the functions here within might be useful for your application, this possibly
indicates a mismatch between your mental model of Perl Unicode and the current reality. In that case, you may wish to read some of the perl
Unicode documentation: perluniintro, perlunitut, perlunifaq and perlunicode.
SYNOPSIS
use bytes;
... chr(...); # or bytes::chr
... index(...); # or bytes::index
... length(...); # or bytes::length
... ord(...); # or bytes::ord
... rindex(...); # or bytes::rindex
... substr(...); # or bytes::substr
no bytes;
DESCRIPTION
The "use bytes" pragma disables character semantics for the rest of the lexical scope in which it appears. "no bytes" can be used to
reverse the effect of "use bytes" within the current lexical scope.
Perl normally assumes character semantics in the presence of character data (i.e. data that has come from a source that has been marked as
being of a particular character encoding). When "use bytes" is in effect, the encoding is temporarily ignored, and each string is treated
as a series of bytes.
As an example, when Perl sees "$x = chr(400)", it encodes the character in UTF-8 and stores it in $x. Then it is marked as character data,
so, for instance, "length $x" returns 1. However, in the scope of the "bytes" pragma, $x is treated as a series of bytes - the bytes that
make up the UTF8 encoding - and "length $x" returns 2:
$x = chr(400);
print "Length is ", length $x, "
"; # "Length is 1"
printf "Contents are %vd
", $x; # "Contents are 400"
{
use bytes; # or "require bytes; bytes::length()"
print "Length is ", length $x, "
"; # "Length is 2"
printf "Contents are %vd
", $x; # "Contents are 198.144"
}
chr(), ord(), substr(), index() and rindex() behave similarly.
For more on the implications and differences between character semantics and byte semantics, see perluniintro and perlunicode.
LIMITATIONS
bytes::substr() does not work as an lvalue().
SEE ALSO
perluniintro, perlunicode, utf8
perl v5.16.2 2012-08-26 bytes(3pm)