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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Insert empty columns inside a pipe delimited file Post 302927961 by RavinderSingh13 on Sunday 7th of December 2014 11:41:52 PM
Old 12-08-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hypesslearner
Hi All ,

I have pipe delimiter file with 11 columns . I need to insert 4 empty columns after column 10 . and After 11 column I need to insert a column which is having the same value for all the rows .


My file

1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11

New file

1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|||||11|ABC


Please can anyone give me a hint on how to work on this


Thanks
Hello Hypesslearner,

Following may help you for provided input.

Code:
 awk -F"|" '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if(i==10){ORS="|||||";print $i} else {ORS="|";print $i}}} END{ORS="\n";print "ABC"}'  Input_file

Output will be as follows.
Code:
1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|||||11|ABC

EDIT: Just adding here if we take taken above output in a file named check14 and then try to get the field's values as follows we can see empty fields have been enterd as follows.

Code:
awk -F"|" '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i==""){print "X"} else {print $i}}}' check14 #### This code is to just check above solution if it inserts the empty fields. ###

Output will be as follows.
Code:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
X
X
X
X
11
ABC

Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 12-08-2014 at 12:53 AM.. Reason: Added a solution check to check either empty fields are entered or not
 

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NAME

       psc - prepare sc files

SYNOPSIS

       psc [-fLkrSPv] [-s cell] [-R n] [-C n] [-n n] [-d c]

DESCRIPTION

       Psc  is used to prepare data for input to the spreadsheet calculator sc(1).  It accepts normal ascii data on standard input.  Standard out-
       put is a sc file.  With no options, psc starts the spreadsheet in cell A0.  Strings are right justified.  All data on a line is entered	on
       the  same row; new input lines cause the output row number to increment by one.	The default delimiters are tab and space.  The column for-
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OPTIONS

       -f     Omit column width calculations.  This option is for preparing data to be merged with an existing spreadsheet.  If the option is  not
	      specified, the column widths calculated for the data read by psc will override those already set in the existing spreadsheet.

       -L     Left justify strings.

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       -r     Output the data by row first then column.  For input consisting of a single column, this option will result in  output  of  one  row
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       -R n   Increment by n on each new output row.

       -C n   Increment by n on each new output column.

       -n n   Output n rows before advancing to the next column.  This option is used when the input is  arranged  in  a  single  column  and  the
	      spreadsheet is to have multiple columns, each of which is to be length n.

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