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Old 11-21-2012
Check for length which exceeds specified length in a line

Hi,

I have a issue, I need to loop through a comma delimited file and check for the length which exceeds specified length , if Yes truncate the string.
But my problem is , I do not have to check for all the fields and the field lenght is not same for all the fields.

For ex:

Say my line
ahjdh,dfhkajhdf,adhklf,eiour

say I need to check length only for 2nd and 4th and max length for 2nd is 6 and max length for 4th field is 4.

Can somebody please help me.
I was trying with AWK , but couldn't move forward with it , please let me know if my logic is correct.

Code:
awk 'BEGIN{ FS = OFS = ","
l="13,2000,160,200,100,50,50,30,30,30,170"
split(l,len,",")
row=$1
split(f,field,",")
f="1,3,11"
split(c,col,",")
}
{
 for (i=1;i<=len,i++) {
  for (j in len) {
  if 
  if (length($(field[i])) = len[j] )

 

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HTML::FormFu::Deflator::CompoundSplit(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		HTML::FormFu::Deflator::CompoundSplit(3pm)

NAME
HTML::FormFu::Deflator::CompoundSplit - CompoundSplit deflator SYNOPSIS
--- element: - type: Multi name: address elements: - name: number - name: street deflator: - type: CompoundSplit # set the default $form->get_field('address')->default( $address ); DESCRIPTION
Deflator to allow you to set several field's values at once. For use with a HTML::FormFu::Element::Multi group of fields. A default value passed to the Multi field will be split according to the "split" setting, and its resulting parts passed to its child elements. METHODS
split Arguments: $regex Default Value: "qr/ +/" Regex used to split the default value. Defaults to a regex matching 1 or more space characters. join Arguments: $string Default Value: ' ' If spliting the value results in more parts than there are fields, any extra parts are joined again to form the value for the last field. The value of "join" is used to join these values. Defaults to a single space. For example, if the Multi element contains fields "number" and "name", and is given the value "10 Downing Street"; when split this results in 3 parts: 10, "Downing" and "Street". In this case, the 1st part, 10 is assigned to the first field, and the 2nd and 3rd parts are re- joined with a space to give the single value "Downing Street", which is assigned to the 2nd field. field_order Arguments: @order If the parts from the split value should be assigned to the fields in a different order, you must provide an arrayref containing the names, in the order they should be assigned to. --- element: - type: Multi name: address elements: - name: street - name: number deflator: - type: CompoundSplit field_order: - number - street AUTHOR
Carl Franks LICENSE
This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-01-23 HTML::FormFu::Deflator::CompoundSplit(3pm)
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