Note that according to the standards, setting FS to an empty string produces undefined results. (Doing so treats each character as a field in gawk and some other version of awk, but generates various errors or unexpected results on other versions of awk.) If I understand what shivacoder is trying to do, I think the following is a portable way to do what was requested:
Last edited by Don Cragun; 11-26-2012 at 01:18 AM..
Hi, I have recently posted in another thread started by me :D. But in an effort to make my script more beautiful I've been thinking abbout while loops.
I run my script with the command:
sh script 4 numbers.txt
And my script is like this:
data=`cat $2 | xargs -n $1`
#echo $data
... (13 Replies)
I have a four part number
eg: 1.21.1.3
I need to find a way in shell script to decrement this by one and put in a loop
so the values printed will be
1.21.1.2
1.21.1.1
1.21.1.0
Which is the best way to do this in shell script?? (7 Replies)
I have two files which I would like to compare and then manipulate in a way.
File1:
pictures.txt 1.1 1.3
dance.txt 1.2 1.4
treehouse.txt 1.3 1.5
File2:
pictures.txt 1.5 ref2313 1.4 ref2345 1.3 ref5432 1.2 ref4244
dance.txt 1.6 ref2342 1.5 ref2352 1.4 ref0695 1.3 ref5738 1.2... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
Thanks in Advance!
I want a simple script to print today and yesterdays date.
using this command
date +%d%m%Y
i can able get today's date but i want yesterday's date with the same format.
so i tried using simple decrement operator
but... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need a script that will subtract 1 from the third column of the line beginning with %, leaving all other values the same. So 158 should be 157, 308 should be 307, 458 should be 457.
Before:
# 30109 xyz abc Data
% 30109 158 5 8 2
000023f
01f4145
# 30109 ... (3 Replies)
Hi, everyone!
I have a file, when I print its $1 out it show several strings like this:
AABBCC
AEFJKLFG
FALEF
FAIWEHF
What I want to do is that, after output of each record, search the string in all files in the same folder, print out the record and file name.
This is what I want... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am new to AWK programming. I have the following for loop in my awk program.
cat printhtml.awk:
BEGIN
-------- <some code here>
END{
----------<some code here>
for(N=0; N<H; N++)
{
for(M=5; M<D; M++) print "\t" D "";
}
-----
}
... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have an input file that looks like so:
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
and I just want to print the first and third column (note: my actual file contains many many more fields so I don't want to use '{ print $NF }' for each field I want.
I tried using:
awk 'BEGIN {FS=" "} { for (i=1;... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: Rabu
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bytes
bytes(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide bytes(3pm)NAME
bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics
NOTICE
This pragma reflects early attempts to incorporate Unicode into perl and has since been superseded. It breaks encapsulation (i.e. it
exposes the innards of how the perl executable currently happens to store a string), and use of this module for anything other than
debugging purposes is strongly discouraged. If you feel that the functions here within might be useful for your application, this possibly
indicates a mismatch between your mental model of Perl Unicode and the current reality. In that case, you may wish to read some of the perl
Unicode documentation: perluniintro, perlunitut, perlunifaq and perlunicode.
SYNOPSIS
use bytes;
... chr(...); # or bytes::chr
... index(...); # or bytes::index
... length(...); # or bytes::length
... ord(...); # or bytes::ord
... rindex(...); # or bytes::rindex
... substr(...); # or bytes::substr
no bytes;
DESCRIPTION
The "use bytes" pragma disables character semantics for the rest of the lexical scope in which it appears. "no bytes" can be used to
reverse the effect of "use bytes" within the current lexical scope.
Perl normally assumes character semantics in the presence of character data (i.e. data that has come from a source that has been marked as
being of a particular character encoding). When "use bytes" is in effect, the encoding is temporarily ignored, and each string is treated
as a series of bytes.
As an example, when Perl sees "$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)