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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can't figure out how to find specific characters in specific columns Post 302733771 by pamu on Wednesday 21st of November 2012 04:09:36 AM
Old 11-21-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Correct. But there may be non POSIX compatible extensions, like in e.g. mawk, Still you would need to phrase the condition like $265$266$267$268=="9999". Might be worth a shot.
I think this FS="" also not supported by all extensions.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

iconv_8859-2

iconv_8859-2(5) 					Standards, Environments, and Macros					   iconv_8859-2(5)

NAME

       iconv_8859-2 - code set conversion tables for ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2)

DESCRIPTION

       The following code set conversions are supported:

       +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
       |		  Code Set Conversions Supported		    |
       +--------------+--------+--------------+--------+--------------------+
       |    Code      |Symbol  |Target Code   |Symbol  |   Target Output    |
       +--------------+--------+--------------+--------+--------------------+
       |ISO 8859-2    |iso2    |MS 1250       |win2    | Windows Latin 2    |
       +--------------+--------+--------------+--------+--------------------+
       |ISO 8859-2    |iso2    |MS 852	      |dos2    | MS-DOS Latin 2     |
       +--------------+--------+--------------+--------+--------------------+
       |ISO 8859-2    |iso2    |Mazovia       |maz     | Mazovia	    |
       +--------------+--------+--------------+--------+--------------------+
       |ISO 8859-2    |iso2    |DHN	      |dhn     | Dom Handlowy Nauki |
       +--------------+--------+--------------+--------+--------------------+

CONVERSIONS

       The conversions are performed according to the following tables. All values in the tables are given in octal.

   ISO 8859-2 to MS 1250
       For the conversion of ISO 8859-2 to MS 1250, all characters not in the following table are mapped unchanged.

       +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
       |	       |     Conversions|Performed	 |		 |
       |  ISO 8859-2   |    MS 1250	|  ISO 8859-2	 |   MS 1250	 |
       |24	       | 4		|261		 |271		 |
       |177-237        | 40		|265		 |276		 |
       |241	       | 245		|266		 |234		 |
       |245	       | 274		|267		 |241		 |
       |246	       | 214		|271		 |232		 |
       |251	       | 212		|273		 |235		 |
       |253	       | 215		|274		 |237		 |
       |254	       | 217		|276		 |236		 |
       |256	       | 216		|266		 |236		 |
       +---------------+----------------+----------------+---------------+

   ISO 8859-2 to MS 852
       For the conversion of ISO 8859-2 to MS 852, all characters not in the following table are mapped unchanged.

       +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
       |	       |     Conversions|Performed	 |		 |
       |  ISO 8859-2   |    MS 852	|  ISO 8859-2	 |   MS 852	 |
       |24	       | 4		|316		 |327		 |
       |177-237        | 40		|317		 |322		 |
       |240	       | 377		|320		 |321		 |
       |241	       | 244		|321		 |343		 |
       |242	       | 364		|322		 |325		 |
       |243	       | 235		|323		 |340		 |
       |244	       | 317		|324		 |342		 |
       |245	       | 225		|325		 |212		 |
       |246	       | 227		|326		 |231		 |
       |247	       | 365		|327		 |236		 |
       |250	       | 371		|330		 |374		 |
       |251	       | 346		|331		 |336		 |
       |252	       | 270		|332		 |351		 |
       |253	       | 233		|333		 |353		 |
       |254	       | 215		|334		 |232		 |
       |255	       | 360		|335		 |355		 |
       |256	       | 246		|336		 |335		 |
       |257	       | 275		|337		 |341		 |
       |260	       | 370		|340		 |352		 |
       |261	       | 245		|341		 |240		 |
       |262	       | 362		|342		 |203		 |
       |263	       | 210		|343		 |307		 |
       |264	       | 357		|344		 |204		 |
       |265	       | 226		|345		 |222		 |
       |266	       | 230		|346		 |206		 |
       |267	       | 363		|347		 |207		 |
       |270	       | 367		|350		 |237		 |
       |271	       | 347		|351		 |202		 |
       |272	       | 255		|352		 |251		 |
       |273	       | 234		|353		 |211		 |
       |274	       | 253		|354		 |330		 |
       |275	       | 361		|355		 |241		 |
       |276	       | 247		|356		 |214		 |
       |277	       | 276		|357		 |324		 |
       |300	       | 350		|360		 |320		 |
       |301	       | 265		|361		 |344		 |
       |302	       | 266		|362		 |345		 |
       |303	       | 306		|363		 |242		 |
       |304	       | 216		|364		 |223		 |
       |305	       | 221		|365		 |213		 |
       |306	       | 217		|366		 |224		 |
       |307	       | 200		|367		 |366		 |
       |310	       | 254		|370		 |375		 |
       |311	       | 220		|371		 |205		 |
       |312	       | 250		|372		 |243		 |
       |313	       | 323		|374		 |201		 |
       |314	       | 267		|375		 |354		 |
       |315	       | 326		|376		 |356		 |
       |366	       | 367		|		 |		 |
       +---------------+----------------+----------------+---------------+

   ISO 8859-2 to Mazovia
       For the conversion of ISO 8859-2 to Mazovia, all characters not in the following table are mapped unchanged.

       +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
       |	       |     Conversions|Performed	 |		 |
       |  ISO 8859-2   |    Mazovia	|  ISO 8859-2	 |   Mazovia	 |
       |24	       | 4		|323		 |243		 |
       |177-237        | 40		|324-325	 |40		 |
       |240	       | 377		|326		 |231		 |
       |241	       | 217		|327-333	 |40		 |
       |242	       | 40		|334		 |232		 |
       |243	       | 234		|335-336	 |40		 |
       |244-245        | 40		|337		 |341		 |
       |246	       | 230		|340-341	 |40		 |
       |247-253        | 40		|342		 |203		 |
       |254	       | 240		|343		 |40		 |
       |255-256        | 40		|344		 |204		 |
       |257	       | 241		|345		 |40		 |
       |260	       | 370		|346		 |215		 |
       |261	       | 206		|347		 |207		 |
       |262	       | 40		|350		 |40		 |
       |263	       | 222		|351		 |202		 |
       |264-265        | 40		|352		 |221		 |
       |266	       | 236		|353		 |211		 |
       |267-273        | 40		|354-355	 |40		 |
       |274	       | 246		|356		 |214		 |
       |275-276        | 40		|357-360	 |40		 |
       |277	       | 247		|361		 |244		 |
       |300-303        | 40		|362		 |40		 |
       |304	       | 216		|363		 |242		 |
       |305	       | 40		|364		 |223		 |
       |306	       | 225		|365		 |40		 |
       |307	       | 200		|366		 |224		 |
       |310-311        | 40		|367		 |366		 |
       |312	       | 220		|370-373	 |40		 |
       |313-320        | 40		|374		 |201		 |
       |321	       | 245		|375-376	 |40		 |
       |322	       | 40		|		 |		 |
       +---------------+----------------+----------------+---------------+

   ISO 8859-2 to DHN
       For the conversion of ISO 8859-2 to DHN, all characters not in the following table are mapped unchanged.

       +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
       |	       |     Conversions|Performed	 |		 |
       |  ISO 8859-2   |      DHN	|  ISO 8859-2	 |     DHN	 |
       |24	       | 4		|322		 |40		 |
       |177-237        | 40		|323		 |205		 |
       |240	       | 377		|324-325	 |40		 |
       |241	       | 200		|326		 |231		 |
       |242	       | 40		|327-333	 |40		 |
       |243	       | 203		|334		 |232		 |
       |244-245        | 40		|335-336	 |40		 |
       |246	       | 206		|337		 |341		 |
       |247-253        | 40		|340		 |40		 |
       |254	       | 207		|341		 |240		 |
       |255-256        | 40		|342-345	 |40		 |
       |257	       | 210		|346		 |212		 |
       |260	       | 370		|347-351	 |40		 |
       |261	       | 211		|352		 |213		 |
       |262	       | 40		|353-354	 |40		 |
       |263	       | 214		|355		 |241		 |
       |264-265        | 40		|356-360	 |40		 |
       |266	       | 217		|361		 |215		 |
       |267-273        | 40		|362		 |40		 |
       |274	       | 220		|363		 |216		 |
       |275-276        | 40		|364		 |223		 |
       |277	       | 221		|365		 |40		 |
       |300-305        | 40		|366		 |224		 |
       |306	       | 201		|367		 |366		 |
       |307-311        | 40		|370-371	 |40		 |
       |312	       | 202		|372		 |243		 |
       |313-320        | 40		|373-376	 |40		 |
       |321	       | 204		|		 |		 |
       +---------------+----------------+----------------+---------------+

FILES

       /usr/lib/iconv/*.so	       conversion modules

       /usr/lib/iconv/*.t	       conversion tables

       /usr/lib/iconv/iconv_data       list of conversions supported by conversion tables

SEE ALSO

       iconv(1), iconv(3C), iconv(5)

SunOS 5.10							    18 Apr 1997 						   iconv_8859-2(5)
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