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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Getting syntax error with awk ternary operator Post 302942137 by Michael Stora on Friday 24th of April 2015 04:18:55 PM
Old 04-24-2015
Getting syntax error with awk ternary operator
Code:
split($7,a," "); date = a[1]; time = a[2]  
split(date,d,"/"); month = sprintf("%02d",d[1]); day = sprintf("%02d",d[2]); year = 2000 + d[3] % 100
split(time,t,":"); hour=t[1]; min=t[2]
hour >= 12? { hour=hour-12; amPm=" PM" } : amPM=" AM"
hour == 0? hour=12
time=sprintf("%02d",hour)":"sprintf("%02d",min)amPm

Code:
awk: cmd. line:9:                      hour >= 12? { hour=hour-12; amPm=" PM" } : amPM=" AM"
awk: cmd. line:9:                                  ^ syntax error
awk: cmd. line:9:                      hour >= 12? { hour=hour-12; amPm=" PM" } : amPM=" AM"
awk: cmd. line:9:                                                               ^ syntax error
awk: cmd. line:11:                      hour == 0? hour=12
awk: cmd. line:11:                                        ^ unexpected newline or end of string

I've tried seperating lines, adding more semicolons at the ends of the line or before the curly bracket BASH-style. Nothing seems to work.
I have other ternary statements in the code that work fine like:
Code:
$19 == "V"? valid = "0" : valid = $19
$22 == ""? comment = "0" : comment = $22

Mike
 

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html::formfu::filter::compoundsprintf

HTML::FormFu::Filter::CompoundSprintf(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		HTML::FormFu::Filter::CompoundSprintf(3pm)

NAME

       HTML::FormFu::Filter::CompoundSprintf - CompoundSprintf filter

SYNOPSIS

	   ---
	   element:
	     - type: Multi
	       name: date

	       elements:
		 - name: day
		 - name: month
		 - name: year

	       filter:
		 - type: CompoundSprintf
		   sprintf: '%02d-%02d-%04d'

	   # get the compound-value

	   my $date = $form->param_value('date');

DESCRIPTION

       For use with a HTML::FormFu::Element::Multi group of fields.

       Uses a sprintf pattern to join the input from several fields into a single value.

METHODS

   sprintf
       Arguments: $string

       "sprintf" pattern used to join the individually submitted parts.  The pattern is passed to the perl-core "sprintf" function.

   field_order
       Inherited. See "field_order" in HTML::FormFu::Filter::_Compound for details.

	   ---
	   element:
	     - type: Multi
	       name: date

	       elements:
		 - name: month
		 - name: day
		 - name year

	       filter:
		 - type: CompoundSprintf
		   field_order:
		     - day
		     - month
		     - year

AUTHOR

       Carl Franks, "cfranks@cpan.org"

LICENSE

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

perl v5.14.2							    2012-01-23				HTML::FormFu::Filter::CompoundSprintf(3pm)
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