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Old 05-05-2016
Awk: subset of fields as variable with sprint

Dear Unix Gurus,

input:
Code:
A|1|2|3|4|5
B|1|2|3|4|3
C|1|2|3|4|1
D|1|9|3|4|12

output:
Code:
A_(5);B(3);C(1)|1|2|3|4
D_(12)|1|9|3|4

Details:
If $2, $3, $3, $5 are identical, concatenate $1 and associated $NF together in the first field.
But I am trying to do the above by passing the identical fields to a sprintf variable.

With my code below, sprintf variable write all the fields on a new line, so I assume it comes from the for loop in the main block, but I don't see what is wrong:
Code:
gawk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"; start=2; end=5}{for(i=start; i<=end; i++){var=sprintf("%s%s",$i, i<e ? OFS : "\n")}; common[var] = common[var] (common[var]? ";" : "") $1"_("$NF")"}END{for(j in common){print common[j] OFS j}}' input

 

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scrl(3XCURSES)						  X/Open Curses Library Functions					    scrl(3XCURSES)

NAME
scrl, scroll, wscrl - scroll a window SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib -R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> int scrl(int n); int scroll(WINDOW *win); int wscrl(WINDOW *win, int n); PARAMETERS
n number and direction of lines to scroll win pointer to the window in which to scroll DESCRIPTION
The scroll() function scrolls the window win up one line. The current cursor position is not changed. The scrl() and wscrl() functions scroll the window stdscr or win up or down n lines, where n is a positive (scroll up) or negative (scroll down) integer. The scrollok(3XCURSES) function must be enabled for these functions to work. RETURN VALUES
On success, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR. ERRORS
None. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
clearok(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 5 Jun 2002 scrl(3XCURSES)
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