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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Transpose recursively into delimited file Post 302734651 by jcs on Thursday 22nd of November 2012 01:31:18 PM
Old 11-22-2012
Can you explain what each component of the awk stmt means?
I am getting an error message:

Code:
awk: syntax error at source line 1
context is
     >>> {$1=$1}1 <<<
awk: bailing out at source line 1

(This was issued as a command, not as part of a script)

The paste command worked perfectly...actually too perfectly...because I found out that there are a few anomalies in the line sequences. Towards the end of the 50,000 lines in the file, the pattern changes to this:

Code:
Line A
Line B

Line C
Line D

And then it reverts back to the original pattern after those 2 sequences. I don't know why that's the case, but it's there.

You don't happen to know of any way to avoid that pothole, do you? (This is more wishful thinking)

Thanks for your help.

---------- Post updated at 12:31 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:28 PM ----------

Oh I think if I can remove all blank lines in the file, then do a 4-line sequence, that should work as the 2-line sequences were actually halves of the 4-line sequence. So in light of that, how can I remove all blank lines from a file?

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 11-22-2012 at 09:56 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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DB2_RESULT(3)								 1							     DB2_RESULT(3)

db2_result - Returns a single column from a row in the result set

SYNOPSIS
mixed db2_result (resource $stmt, mixed $column) DESCRIPTION
Use db2_result(3) to return the value of a specified column in the current row of a result set. You must call db2_fetch_row(3) before calling db2_result(3) to set the location of the result set pointer. PARAMETERS
o $stmt - A valid stmt resource. o $column - Either an integer mapping to the 0-indexed field in the result set, or a string matching the name of the column. RETURN VALUES
Returns the value of the requested field if the field exists in the result set. Returns NULL if the field does not exist, and issues a warning. EXAMPLES
Example #1 A db2_result(3) example The following example demonstrates how to iterate through a result set with db2_fetch_row(3) and retrieve columns from the result set with db2_result(3). <?php $sql = 'SELECT name, breed FROM animals WHERE weight < ?'; $stmt = db2_prepare($conn, $sql); db2_execute($stmt, array(10)); while (db2_fetch_row($stmt)) { $name = db2_result($stmt, 0); $breed = db2_result($stmt, 'BREED'); print "$name $breed"; } ?> The above example will output: cat Pook gold fish Bubbles budgerigar Gizmo goat Rickety Ride SEE ALSO
db2_fetch_array(3), db2_fetch_assoc(3), db2_fetch_both(3), db2_fetch_object(3), db2_fetch_row(3). PHP Documentation Group DB2_RESULT(3)
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