I need to write a script where it will check for : blank lines (between rows,before first line and after last line) and remove them. Also if there are any blank records between the "|" delimeter it will identify the row number and send a mail. Finally in case there are "junk characters" it will identify and remove them. How should I go about it?
I know what a blank line is. What is a ": blank line"? Is it a blank line that can contain colons in addition to <space>s and <tab>s?
By definition, a blank line only contains characters in the character class blank and the character | is never a member of that character class. So, what do you really mean by "blank records between the "|" delimiter"?
All of the characters in the 1st two fields of the 1st three lines of your sample ABC.TXT look like "junk characters" to me. What is your definition of a junk character? If " KJHSAJKHHJJ" isn't junk, what is it?
Hi,
I am trying to do two things in my script. I will really appreciate any help in this regards.
Is there a way to delete a last line from a pipe delimited flat file if the last line is blank. If the line is not blank then do nothing.....
Is there a way to count a word that are starting... (4 Replies)
Dear All
I want to do following task. Kindly suggest.
In my script every hour one file is genarated. say xyz.txt.
Now if this file contain some data then i want to do task A and if file is blank then i want to do nothing.
Kindly help me to do this.
regards
jaydeep (5 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have been trying to remove blank lines from a file with no success. I tried using all the following options on the file:
tr -s '\n' < abc.txt
grep -v "^$" abc.txt
sed '/^$/d' abc.txt
sed '/./!d' abc.txt
awk '/./' abc.txt
The file is a text file. (11 Replies)
Hi,
Consider a file named "testfile"
The contents of file are as below
first line added for test
second line added for test
third line added for test
fourth line added for test
fifth line added for test (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file and I need to delete the lines that are blank and is starting with some characters below. Something like below:
Regular Ascii File:
Line1: AGODA1 BUSAN||SK Lord Beach 4/6/2012 4/7/2012 68060
Line2: AGODA2 BUSAN||SK Beach Hotel 4/6/2012 4/7/2012 610200
Line3: ... (4 Replies)
Hello All,
I have a file with data as below. Each line consists of 21 fields. I am not able to load them back to the database.
50733339,"834","834 ","005010X279A1","N","Y","007977163","0001 ",30,"2110D ","EB ","EB007 ","2 ","Conditional Required Data Element Miss
ing... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
How do i remove continuos blank lines from a file.
I have a file with data:
abc;
def;
ghi;
jkl;
mno;
pqr;
In the above file, there are two blank lines. I want to remove, one out of them.
My output should look like: (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am using KSH.
I am trying to check if the output file is empty or not.
I tried with ] but what i see is my file is empty but still manages to have a size of 1 instead of 0.
But my file doesnot have anything its empty.
I am not sure how to check this.
can any one help? (10 Replies)
I have a file with the following format:
X|High|2|GIC|DM||XHM|||6 Months
X|Moderate|2|GIC|DM||XHM|||6 Months
X|High|2|GCM|DM||XSF|||6 Months
X|Med|2|GCM|DM||XSF|||6
Here there are ten columns but I need to print rows having blank records in any of the rows (except for 6th,8th and 9th... (10 Replies)
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iswblank
ISWBLANK(3) Linux Programmer's Manual ISWBLANK(3)NAME
iswblank - test for whitespace wide character
SYNOPSIS
#include <wctype.h>
int iswblank(wint_t wc);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
iswblank():
_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
or cc -std=c99
DESCRIPTION
The iswblank() function is the wide-character equivalent of the isblank(3) function. It tests whether wc is a wide character belonging to
the wide-character class "blank".
The wide-character class "blank" is a subclass of the wide-character class "space".
Being a subclass of the wide-character class "space", the wide-character class "blank" is disjoint from the wide-character class "graph"
and therefore also disjoint from its subclasses "alnum", "alpha", "upper", "lower", "digit", "xdigit", "punct".
The wide-character class "blank" always contains at least the space character and the control character ' '.
RETURN VALUE
The iswblank() function returns nonzero if wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "blank". Otherwise it returns
zero.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
The behavior of iswblank() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.
SEE ALSO isblank(3), iswctype(3)COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
GNU 2010-09-20 ISWBLANK(3)