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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Morse Code with Associative Array Post 302926952 by ksmarine1980 on Friday 28th of November 2014 07:43:26 PM
Old 11-28-2014
Morse Code with Associative Array
Continuing my quest to learn BASH, Bourne, Awk, Grep, etc. on my own through the use of a few books. I've come to an exercise that has me absolutely stumped.

The specifics:
1. Using ONLY BASH scripting commands (not sed, awk, etc.), write a script to convert a string on the command line to Morse code. The script will handle only capital letters and numbers
2. It will convert the string given on the command line as in the
following example:
$ ./morse.bash “CAT IN”
-.-.,.-,-,SP,..,-.,EOT (SP is used for a space, and EOT for end of transmission).
3. An associative array is to be used for the “lookup table” to do the
conversion from a character to Morse Code.

This is my time using an associative array, so this exercise has me stumped. Any help, guidance, suggestions are greatly appreciated. Here's what I have so far:

Code:
morse=$1
for (( i = 0; $i < ${#morse}; i = $i +1 ));
do
        echo ${morse:$i:1}
done

declare -A morse #Declare associative array
morse[A]=".;-"
morse[B]="-;.;.;."
morse[C]="-;.;-;."
morse[D]="-;.;."
morse[E]="."
morse[F]=".;.;-;."
morse[G]="-;-;."
morse[H]=".;.;.;."
morse[I]=".;."
morse[J]=".;-;-;-"
morse[K]="-;.;-"
morse[L]=".;-;.;."
morse[M]="-;-"
morse[N]="-;."
morse[O]="-;-;-"
morse[P]=".;-;-;."
morse[Q]="-;-;.;-"
morse[R]="-;-;.;-"
morse[S]=".;.;."
morse[T]="-"
morse[U]=".;.;-"
morse[V]=".;.;.;-"
morse[W]=".;-;-"
morse[X]="-;.;.;-"
morse[Y]="-;.;-;-"
morse[Z]="-;-;.;."
morse[1]=".;-;-;-;-"
morse[2]=".;.;-;-;-"
morse[3]=".;.;.;-;-"
morse[4]=".;.;.;.;-"
morse[5]=".;.;.;.;."
morse[6]="-;.;.;.;."
morse[7]="-;-;.;.;."
morse[8]="-;-;-;.;."
morse[9]="-;-;-;-;."
morse[0]="-;-;-;-;-"

 

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XSIL2GRAPHICS(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  XSIL2GRAPHICS(1)

NAME

       xsil2graphics - generate scripts to load xsil output data files

SYNOPSIS

       xsil2graphics [options] <xsil_file>

DESCRIPTION

       Utility program bundled with xmds, used to generate scripts that load simulation output data into either matlab (http://www.mathworks.com)
       or scilab (http://www.scilab.org), which are then used to manipulate the results further if necessary and then to present the results
       graphically.

       Matlab

       To generate a matlab m-file, from the xsil file data_file.xsil use the command:

       bash$ xsil2graphics data_file.xsil

       or

       bash$ xsil2graphics --matlab data_file.xsil

       Then at the matlab command prompt:

       >> data_file

       Scilab

       To generate a scilab script file, from the xsil file data_file.xsil use the command:

       bash$ xsil2graphics --scilab data_file.xsil

       Then at the scilab command prompt:

       --> exec('data_file.sci')

OPTIONS

       -m, --matlab generate matlab m-file script to load data from the xsil data file (the default option)

       -s, -scilab generate scilab script file to load data from the xsil data file

       -o, --outfile <out_file> specify an alternative output script filename to the default which is the input xsil filename with the .xsil
       extension changed to either .m for the matlab m-file or .sci for the scilab script file

EXAMPLES

       bash$ xsil2graphics nlse.xsil

       Generates the output nlse.m to load the data into matlab

       bash$ xsil2graphics -m nlse.xsil

       Also generates the output nlse.m but explicitly sets matlab to be the output format

       bash$ xsil2graphics --scilab nlse.xsil

       Generates the output nlse.sci to load the data into scilab

       bash$ xsil2graphics --outfile nlse_new.m nlse.xsil

       Generates the output nlse_new.m to load the data into matlab

AUTHORS

       Originally written by Greg Collecutt

       Maintained by Paul Cochrane with code contributed by Joe Hope

BUGS

       No known bugs.

SEE ALSO

       xmds(1), loadxsil(1)

       http://www.xmds.org

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2000-2004

       Code contributed by Greg Collecutt, Joseph Hope and Paul Cochrane

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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