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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers awk Behavior Post 302978834 by bakunin on Thursday 4th of August 2016 02:17:26 PM
Old 08-04-2016
Even though this discussion about awk intrinsics is fascinating and my horizon was expanded (a collective "thank you" to you all in this thread), just for the record:

Wouldn't the usage of shell means (variable expansion or field splitting) be less costly than the use of an external program? I suppose thread-o/p does something with the values once he split them, something along the lines of:

Code:
awk -F',' '{print $1}' datafile | while read IP ; do ..... done

In such a case it might be easier to do:

Code:
while IFS=, read IP junk ; do ..... done < datafile

or, depending on what else is done:

Code:
while read LINE ; do
     IP="${LINE%,*}"
     .....
done < datafile

bakunin
 

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Template::Plugin::Datafile(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   Template::Plugin::Datafile(3pm)

NAME
Template::Plugin::Datafile - Plugin to construct records from a simple data file SYNOPSIS
[% USE mydata = datafile('/path/to/datafile') %] [% USE mydata = datafile('/path/to/datafile', delim = '|') %] [% FOREACH record = mydata %] [% record.this %] [% record.that %] [% END %] DESCRIPTION
This plugin provides a simple facility to construct a list of hash references, each of which represents a data record of known structure, from a data file. [% USE datafile(filename) %] A absolute filename must be specified (for this initial implementation at least - in a future version it might also use the "INCLUDE_PATH"). An optional "delim" parameter may also be provided to specify an alternate delimiter character. [% USE userlist = datafile('/path/to/file/users') %] [% USE things = datafile('items', delim = '|') %] The format of the file is intentionally simple. The first line defines the field names, delimited by colons with optional surrounding whitespace. Subsequent lines then defines records containing data items, also delimited by colons. e.g. id : name : email : tel abw : Andy Wardley : abw@tt2.org : 555-1234 sam : Simon Matthews : sam@tt2.org : 555-9876 Each line is read, split into composite fields, and then used to initialise a hash array containing the field names as relevant keys. The plugin returns a blessed list reference containing the hash references in the order as defined in the file. [% FOREACH user = userlist %] [% user.id %]: [% user.name %] [% END %] The first line of the file must contain the field definitions. After the first line, blank lines will be ignored, along with comment line which start with a '"#"'. BUGS
Should handle file names relative to "INCLUDE_PATH". Doesn't permit use of '":"' in a field. Some escaping mechanism is required. AUTHOR
Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
Template::Plugin perl v5.14.2 2011-12-20 Template::Plugin::Datafile(3pm)
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