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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Matched a pattern from multiple columns Post 302887509 by vgersh99 on Saturday 8th of February 2014 10:23:58 AM
Old 02-08-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by redse171
I just want "M" that exist in 2 columns not more or less than that. add55 has M in column 4, which is not what i want. thanks
Code:
awk -v cols='2 3' -f red.awk myFile

red.awk:
Code:
BEGIN {
  FS="\t"
  if (!cols) cols="2 3 4 5"
  if (!val) val="M"
  nc=split(cols, colsA, " ")
}
{
  p=0
  for(i=1;i<=nc;i++)
    ($colsA[i]==val)?p++:p--
  if (p==nc && p+1==NF) print $1
}

if it still doesn't work, please provide the output of cat -vet myFile using the code tags.
 

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set_menu_format

menu_format(3CURSES)					     Curses Library Functions					      menu_format(3CURSES)

NAME

       menu_format, set_menu_format - set and get maximum numbers of rows and columns in menus

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag... ] file... -lmenu  -lcurses	[ library... ]
       #include <menu.h>

       int set_menu_format(MENU *menu, int rows, int cols);

       void menu_format(MENU *menu, int *rows, int *cols);

DESCRIPTION

       set_menu_format()  sets	the  maximum number of rows and columns of items that may be displayed at one time on a menu. If the menu contains
       more items than can be displayed at once, the menu will be scrollable.

       menu_format() returns the maximum number of rows and columns that may be displayed at one time on menu. rows and cols are pointers  to  the
       variables used to return these values.

RETURN VALUES

       set_menu_format() returns one of the following:

       E_OK		 The routine returned successfully.

       E_SYSTEM_ERROR	 System error.

       E_BAD_ARGUMENT	 An incorrect argument was passed to the routine.

       E_POSTED 	 The menu is already posted.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Unsafe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       curses(3CURSES), menus(3CURSES), attributes(5)

NOTES

       The header <menu.h> automatically includes the headers  <eti.h> and <curses.h>.

SunOS 5.11							    31 Dec 1996 					      menu_format(3CURSES)
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