...should put the string "string" into the variable named abcdef.
This is how it's often used:
...but note that it takes a variable name -- a string -- not the variable itself. You can feed it whatever string you please, derived from whatever variables you please, and do things that would otherwise require ugly insecure eval hacks.
You can redirect into it any way you please. <<< is an ordinary redirection in BASH which replaces stdin with a string.
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Using bash, I'm trying to read a .properties file (name=value pairs), assigning an indirect variable reference for each line in the file.
The trick is that a property's value string may contain the name of a property that occurred earlier in the file, and I want the name of the 1st property to... (5 Replies)
The construct ${#parameter} returns the number of characters in the parameter and ${!parameter} specifies an indirect variable. My question is: How do I combine these two. What I want is ${#!parameter} but this gives an error.
Of course I can use:
dummy=${!parameter}
${#dummy}
but that's a... (0 Replies)
Ummm can anybody help me with this one?
Its prob quite simple.
I bascially have a file name say J1x2x3x7.dat
Im using the file name as a variable in a bash script. Want I want to do is extract most of the file name and make it a new variable expect with say one of the number now a... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I've got a small problem.
If varible A stores "B" and Variable B stores C,
How to get the value of variable B by using only Variable A..?
I tried the following but didnt work pease help..
$ var1=vikram
$ echo $var1
vikram
$ vikram=sampath
$ echo $vikram
sampath
$ echo... (6 Replies)
Hi
I have variable A_B=alpha
also var1="A"
var2="B"
I want to retrieve the value alpha using var1 and var2 , somthing like
echo ${${var1}_${var2}} that works. Obviously this is receiving syntax
error (6 Replies)
Hello,
is there a kind soul who can answer me, does the SH support double substitution known as indirect expansion similar to BASH? The syntax for bash is ${!var}.
For instance in bash I can write something like this:
VAR="value"
REF_VAR="VAR"
echo ${!REF_VAR}
and get the "value"... (1 Reply)
I have a file with two columns of numbers (member IDs):
1 1
2 1
3 1
4 2
5 4
6 1
7 5
8 3
9 2
Think of column 1 as the referee and column 2 as the referrer.
Is there a good way to backtrack who referred who? I would like an output, for this example here to be:
1 1
2 1
3 1
4 2 1 (2 Replies)
Sometimes it is handy to protect long scripts in C++.
The following syntax works fine for simple commands:
#define SHELLSCRIPT1 "\
#/bin/bash \n\
echo \"hello\" \n\
"
int main ()
{
cout <<system(SHELLSCRIPT1);
return 0;
}
Unfortunately for there are problems for:
1d arrays:... (10 Replies)
Trying to do so
echo "111:222:333" |awk -F: '{system("export TESTO=" $2)}'But it doesn't work (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: urello
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pdl::char
Char(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Char(3)NAME
PDL::Char -- PDL subclass which allows reading and writing of fixed-length character strings as byte PDLs
SYNOPSIS
use PDL;
use PDL::Char;
my $pchar = PDL::Char->new( [['abc', 'def', 'ghi'],['jkl', 'mno', 'pqr']] );
$pchar->setstr(1,0,'foo');
print $pchar; # 'string' bound to "", perl stringify function
# Prints:
# [
# ['abc' 'foo' 'ghi']
# ['jkl' 'mno' 'pqr']
# ]
print $pchar->atstr(2,0);
# Prints:
# ghi
DESCRIPTION
This subclass of PDL allows one to manipulate PDLs of 'byte' type as if they were made of fixed length strings, not just numbers.
This type of behavior is useful when you want to work with charactar grids. The indexing is done on a string level and not a character
level for the 'setstr' and 'atstr' commands.
This module is in particular useful for writing NetCDF files that include character data using the PDL::NetCDF module.
FUNCTIONS
new
Function to create a byte PDL from a string, list of strings, list of list of strings, etc.
# create a new PDL::Char from a perl array of strings
$strpdl = PDL::Char->new( ['abc', 'def', 'ghij'] );
# Convert a PDL of type 'byte' to a PDL::Char
$strpdl1 = PDL::Char->new (sequence (byte, 4, 5)+99);
$pdlchar3d = PDL::Char->new([['abc','def','ghi'],['jkl', 'mno', 'pqr']]);
string
Function to print a character PDL (created by 'char') in a pretty format.
$char = PDL::Char->new( [['abc', 'def', 'ghi'], ['jkl', 'mno', 'pqr']] );
print $char; # 'string' bound to "", perl stringify function
# Prints:
# [
# ['abc' 'def' 'ghi']
# ['jkl' 'mno' 'pqr']
# ]
# 'string' is overloaded to the "" operator, so:
# print $char;
# should have the same effect.
setstr
Function to set one string value in a character PDL. The input position is the position of the string, not a character in the string. The
first dimension is assumed to be the length of the string.
The input string will be null-padded if the string is shorter than the first dimension of the PDL. It will be truncated if it is longer.
$char = PDL::Char->new( [['abc', 'def', 'ghi'], ['jkl', 'mno', 'pqr']] );
$char->setstr(0,1, 'foobar');
print $char; # 'string' bound to "", perl stringify function
# Prints:
# [
# ['abc' 'def' 'ghi']
# ['foo' 'mno' 'pqr']
# ]
$char->setstr(2,1, 'f');
print $char; # 'string' bound to "", perl stringify function
# Prints:
# [
# ['abc' 'def' 'ghi']
# ['foo' 'mno' 'f'] -> note that this 'f' is stored "f "
# ]
atstr
Function to fetch one string value from a PDL::Char type PDL, given a position within the PDL. The input position of the string, not a
character in the string. The length of the input string is the implied first dimension.
$char = PDL::Char->new( [['abc', 'def', 'ghi'], ['jkl', 'mno', 'pqr']] );
print $char->atstr(0,1);
# Prints:
# jkl
perl v5.12.1 2009-10-17 Char(3)