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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Basic arithmetic operation with awk? Post 302962816 by beca123456 on Friday 18th of December 2015 06:47:25 PM
Old 12-18-2015
Basic arithmetic operation with awk?
input:
Code:
Name|Operation
rec_10|1+2+2-

Output:
Code:
rec_10|1

Basically I am trying to calculate the result of "the path" in $3 where the operators follow the number and not preceding them like we normally do:
rec_10: +1+2-2=1

But I realise (I am sure there is a good reason for that) that awk does handle basic arithmetic operations, like:
(+1) + (2) + (-2) = 1
Giving that to awk:
Code:
awk '{a==1; b==2; c==(-2); print a+b+c}'

makes it stuck in a loop.

Therefore, I think the approach of putting the numbers and operators in the right order (code below) would not work at the end anyway:
Code:
gawk '
BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"}

NR>1{
p=$2;

printf("%s|",$1);

a=split(p, b, "");

for(i=1;i<=a; i=i+2){
   printf("%s%s",substr($2, i+1, 1),substr($2,i,1))
   }

print substr(p,a)}'

output:
Code:
rec_10|+1+2-2-

Is there any awk trick I could use instead?
Maybe using an increment x++, but instead of the '+' sign writing some variables like for example:
Code:
gawk '
BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"}
{
   a=split($2,b,"");
   x==0;
   for(i=a; i>=1; i--){
      x(i)(i+1)
   }
}
END{print x}'

The code above is just an example and returns:
Code:
gawk: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: function `x' not defined

Last edited by beca123456; 12-18-2015 at 09:51 PM..
 

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