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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace a field with a character as per the field length Post 302764445 by Yoda on Thursday 31st of January 2013 01:52:29 PM
Old 01-31-2013
Code:
awk '{ for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) if(length($i)==20) gsub(/./,"*",$i); }1' filename

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LEARN ABOUT PHP

ingres_field_length

INGRES_FIELD_LENGTH(3)							 1						    INGRES_FIELD_LENGTH(3)

ingres_field_length - Get the length of a field

SYNOPSIS

       int ingres_field_length (resource  $result, int	$index)

DESCRIPTION

       ingres_field_length(3) returns the length of a field. This is the number of bytes the server uses to store the field. For detailed informa-
       tion, see the Ingres OpenAPI User Guide, Appendix "Data Types" in the Ingres documentation.

       Note

	      Related Configurations

	       See ingres.array_index_start in Runtime Configuration

PARAMETERS

	      o $result
		- The query result identifier

	      o $index
		-$index is the column number whose  length  will  be  retrieved.   The	possible  values  of  $index  depend  upon  the  value	of
		ingres.array_index_start.  If  ingres.array_index_start is 1 (the default) then $index must be between 1 and the value returned by
		ingres_num_fields(3). If ingres.array_index_start is 0 then $index must be between 0 and ingres_num_fields(3)
		 - 1.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns the length of a field.

SEE ALSO

       ingres_query(3), ingres_fetch_array(3), ingres_fetch_assoc(3), ingres_fetch_object(3), ingres_fetch_row(3).

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