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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Retaining whitespaces... Post 302820707 by kumarjt on Thursday 13th of June 2013 09:28:11 AM
Old 06-13-2013
Retaining whitespaces...
There's an input file(input.txt) which has the following details :
Code:
CBA
 BA

<Please note the second record has a LEADING WHITESPACE which is VALID>
I am using the following code to read the content of the said file line by line:
Code:
while read p ; do
   echo "$p"
done < input.txt

This is the output I am getting :
Code:
CBA
BA

Note : The leading WHITESPACE in the second record is getting removed automatically when the read command
is retrieving the values and assigning it to the variable "p"

HOW CAN I RETAIN THE LEADING WHITESPACE OF A COMMAND OUTPUT ????
IS IT A DEFAULT FEATURE OF UNIX TO REMOVE ALL LEADING/TRAILING WHITESPACE CHARACTERS WHENEVER A COMMAND ASSIGNS ITS OUTPUT TO A VARIABLE
FROM THE STDOUT ??
HOW TO BYPASS IT ??
This same thing happens for the following command also :

Code:
for p in `cat input.txt` ; do
   echo "$p"
done

PLEASE HELP.
Thanks
Kumarjit.
Last edited by radoulov; 06-13-2013 at 10:34 AM..
 

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locale::codes::langext5.18

Locale::Codes::LangExt(3pm)				 Perl Programmers Reference Guide			       Locale::Codes::LangExt(3pm)

NAME

       Locale::Codes::LangExt - standard codes for language extension identification

SYNOPSIS

	  use Locale::Codes::LangExt;

	  $lext = code2langext('acm');		       # $lext gets 'Mesopotamian Arabic'
	  $code = langext2code('Mesopotamian Arabic'); # $code gets 'acm'

	  @codes   = all_langext_codes();
	  @names   = all_langext_names();

DESCRIPTION

       The "Locale::Codes::LangExt" module provides access to standard codes used for identifying language extensions, such as those as defined in
       the IANA language registry.

       Most of the routines take an optional additional argument which specifies the code set to use. If not specified, the default IANA language
       registry codes will be used.

SUPPORTED CODE SETS

       There are several different code sets you can use for identifying language extensions. A code set may be specified using either a name, or
       a constant that is automatically exported by this module.

       For example, the two are equivalent:

	  $lext = code2langext('acm','alpha');
	  $lext = code2langext('acm',LOCALE_LANGEXT_ALPHA);

       The codesets currently supported are:

       alpha
	   This is the set of three-letter (lowercase) codes from the IANA language registry, such as 'acm' for Mesopotamian Arabic.

	   This is the default code set.

ROUTINES

       code2langext ( CODE [,CODESET] )
       langext2code ( NAME [,CODESET] )
       langext_code2code ( CODE ,CODESET ,CODESET2 )
       all_langext_codes ( [CODESET] )
       all_langext_names ( [CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::rename_langext  ( CODE ,NEW_NAME [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::add_langext  ( CODE ,NAME [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::delete_langext  ( CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::add_langext_alias  ( NAME ,NEW_NAME )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::delete_langext_alias  ( NAME )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::rename_langext_code  ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::add_langext_code_alias  ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::delete_langext_code_alias  ( CODE [,CODESET] )
	   These routines are all documented in the Locale::Codes::API man page.

SEE ALSO

       Locale::Codes
	   The Locale-Codes distribution.

       Locale::Codes::API
	   The list of functions supported by this module.

       http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry
	   The IANA language subtag registry.

AUTHOR

       See Locale::Codes for full author history.

       Currently maintained by Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org).

COPYRIGHT

	  Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Sullivan Beck

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.18.2							    2013-11-04					       Locale::Codes::LangExt(3pm)
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