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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Should I say "field 8" or "column 8" in this case? Post 302784611 by hanson44 on Friday 22nd of March 2013 02:55:06 PM
Old 03-22-2013
Yes, I think the sort syntax reinforces what I was trying to say. "sort -t, -k 8 fields.txt" sorts "field 8". The sort man page refers to "field separator" and "field number" and --field-separator. "column" is not even mentioned on the sort man page.

For the position within a field, both sort and cut use "character" instead of "column". In other words, cut says --characters where I would have said --columns. To me "characters" is confusing, as could be interpreted to be "--characters=ABC" as if looking for those "characters". The man pages says "select only these characters". Why did they choose --characters instead of --columns for the option name?

Of course, nobody is going to change the option name at this point. I suppose they could at least improve the cut man page, to say "select only these character positions".
 

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OCI_RESULT(3)															     OCI_RESULT(3)

oci_result - Returns field's value from the fetched row

SYNOPSIS
mixed oci_result (resource $statement, mixed $field) DESCRIPTION
Returns the data from $field in the current row, fetched by oci_fetch(3). For details on the data type mapping performed by the OCI8 extension, see the datatypes supported by the driver PARAMETERS
o $statement - o $field - Can be either use the column number (1-based) or the column name. The case of the column name must be the case that Oracle meta data describes the column as, which is uppercase for columns created case insensitively. RETURN VALUES
Returns everything as strings except for abstract types (ROWIDs, LOBs and FILEs). Returns FALSE on error. EXAMPLES
Example #1 oci_fetch(3) with oci_result(3) <?php $conn = oci_connect('hr', 'welcome', 'localhost/XE'); if (!$conn) { $e = oci_error(); trigger_error(htmlentities($e['message'], ENT_QUOTES), E_USER_ERROR); } $sql = 'SELECT location_id, city FROM locations WHERE location_id < 1200'; $stid = oci_parse($conn, $sql); oci_execute($stid); while (oci_fetch($stid)) { echo oci_result($stid, 'LOCATION_ID') . " is "; echo oci_result($stid, 'CITY') . "<br> "; } // Displays: // 1000 is Roma // 1100 is Venice oci_free_statement($stid); oci_close($conn); ?> NOTES
Note In PHP versions before 5.0.0 you must use ociresult(3) instead. This name still can be used, it was left as alias of oci_result(3) for downwards compatability. This, however, is deprecated and not recommended. SEE ALSO
oci_fetch_array(3), oci_fetch_assoc(3), oci_fetch_object(3), oci_fetch_row(3), oci_fetch_all(3). PHP Documentation Group OCI_RESULT(3)
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