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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script to put delimiter for a no delimiter variable length text file Post 302762447 by Gaurav Martha on Monday 28th of January 2013 12:54:57 PM
Old 01-28-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by bipinajith
I don't understand. If remaining columns are variable length, then what criteria you will use to separate the data?

BTW If the columns are fixed length then you can define field lengths in a file or variable and perform the separation.
Bipin,

By Variable length I mean.. Like in previous example I taken three number, so some one may have three different phone number and someone may have none...
Code:
sunilbassi031012345678901234567890123456789 
sunilbassi03101234567890123456789 
sunilbassi0310123456789

I have Max length defined for all columns and individual column lengths as well.
Now I want to separate them through delimiter.

Furthermore, If spaces can be added to this variable length file and convert this into fixed length comma separated file. eg:
Code:
sunil,bassi,031,0123456789,0123456789,0123456789 
sunil,bassi,031,0123456789,0123456789,           
sunil,bassi,031,0123456789,          ,

---------- Post updated at 12:54 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:53 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by rdrtx1
try also:
Code:
awk '
NR==FNR {if (NF==2) field[++fc]=$2 ; next}
{ el=$0; cc=1; for (i=1; i<=fc; i++) {$i=substr(el,cc,field[i]); cc+=field[i]}}
1
' OFS=, schema_file data_file

Could you please care to explain.
Last edited by Scott; 01-28-2013 at 03:04 PM.. Reason: Code tags...
 

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phones

phones(4)							   File Formats 							 phones(4)

NAME

       phones - remote host phone number database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/phones

DESCRIPTION

       The  file /etc/phones contains the system-wide private phone numbers for the tip(1) program. /etc/phones is normally unreadable, and so may
       contain privileged information.	The format of /etc/phones is a series of lines of the form:

       <system-name>[ 	]*<phone-number>.

       The system name is one of those defined in the remote(4) file and the phone number is constructed from [0123456789-=*%]. The  `='  and  `*'
       characters  are	indicators  to	the auto call units to pause and wait for a second dial tone (when going through an exchange).	The `=' is
       required by the DF02-AC and the `*' is required by the BIZCOMP 1030.

       Comment lines are lines containing a `#' sign in the first column of the line.

       Only one phone number per line is permitted. However, if more than one line in the file contains the same system name tip(1)  will  attempt
       to dial each one in turn, until it establishes a connection.

FILES

       /etc/phones

SEE ALSO

       tip(1), remote(4)

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