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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Print the column content based on the header Post 302813685 by Fundix on Tuesday 28th of May 2013 02:17:36 AM
Old 05-28-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by millan
Hey Fundix,Thank you ..it worked fine.

But i want to keep name in a variable

var="name"
awk -F"," ' /$var/ { for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) if ($i=="$var") idx=i} $0 !~ /$var/ { print $idx} ' filename

But it is not giving the output..Could you pls tell me know how i will use a variable here.
You can use -v to pass vars to awk :

Code:
awk -v var="name" -F"," ' /var/ { for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) if ($i==var) idx=i} $0 !~ /var/ { print $idx} ' file

 

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db2_field_scale

DB2_FIELD_SCALE(3)							 1							DB2_FIELD_SCALE(3)

db2_field_scale - Returns the scale of the indicated column in a result set

SYNOPSIS

       int db2_field_scale (resource  $stmt, mixed  $column)

DESCRIPTION

	Returns the scale of the indicated column in a result set.

PARAMETERS

	      o $stmt
		- Specifies a statement resource containing a result set.

	      o $column
		-  Specifies  the  column in the result set. This can either be an integer representing the 0-indexed position of the column, or a
		string containing the name of the column.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns an integer containing the  scale  of  the  specified  column.  If  the	specified  column  does  not  exist  in  the  result  set,
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SEE ALSO

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