Apart from solving above line length problems, here's something to start with if the problem doesn't hit system limits:
Most of the processing for the first line is for sorting the columns; my awk doesn't have a sorting algortihm, unfortunately.
I have a pipe delimited file. Key is field 2, date is field 5 (as example, my real file is more complicated of course, but the KEY and DATE are accurate)
There can be duplicate rows for a key with different dates.
I need to keep only rows with latest date in this case.
Example data: ... (4 Replies)
Hi
I need to do some thing like "find and insert before that " in a file which contains many records. This will be clear with the following example.
The original data record should be some thing like this
60119827 RTMS_LOCATION_CDR INSTANT_POSITION_QUERY 1236574686123083rtmssrv7 ... (8 Replies)
Hello All:
I've file in below format. File name is "FIRSTN.TBL":
AAAAAA N
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB N
.
.
.
.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ N
My file row length is 40 characters and my second column will start from 25th column and it is only... (3 Replies)
Hi, I need somebody's help with sorting data with awk.
I've got a file:
10 aaa 4584
12 bbb 6138
20 ccc 4417
21 ddd 7796
10 eee 7484
12 fff ... (5 Replies)
Hello,
How to sort each row in a document with numerical values and with more than one row. Example
Input data (file1.txt):
4 6 8 1 7
2 12 9 6 10
6 1 14 5 7
and I want the the output to look like this(file2.txt):
1 4 6 7 8
2 6 9 10 12
1 5 6 7 14
I've tried
sort -n file1.txt >... (12 Replies)
how can i sort the table based on first row? thanks in advance
input
name d b c a
l l1 l2 l3 l4
l1 1 2 3 4
l2 2 2 2 1
l3 1 1 2 2ouput
name a b c d
l1 l4 ... (4 Replies)
In the awk below I am trying to remove all instances after a ; (semi-colon) or , (comma) in the ANN= pattern. I am using gsub
to substitute an empty string in these, so that ANN= is a single value (with only one value in it the one right after the ANN=). Thank you :).
I have comented my awk and... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
substr
SUBSTR(3) 1 SUBSTR(3)substr - Return part of a stringSYNOPSIS
string substr (string $string, int $start, [int $length])
DESCRIPTION
Returns the portion of $string specified by the $start and $length parameters.
PARAMETERS
o $string
- The input string. Must be one character or longer.
o $start
- If $start is non-negative, the returned string will start at the $start'th position in $string, counting from zero. For
instance, in the string ' abcdef', the character at position 0 is ' a', the character at position 2 is ' c', and so forth. If
$start is negative, the returned string will start at the $start'th character from the end of $string. If $string is less than or
equal to $start characters long, FALSE will be returned.
Example #1
Using a negative $start
<?php
$rest = substr("abcdef", -1); // returns "f"
$rest = substr("abcdef", -2); // returns "ef"
$rest = substr("abcdef", -3, 1); // returns "d"
?>
o $length
- If $length is given and is positive, the string returned will contain at most $length characters beginning from $start (depend-
ing on the length of $string). If $length is given and is negative, then that many characters will be omitted from the end of
$string (after the start position has been calculated when a $start is negative). If $start denotes the position of this trunca-
tion or beyond, false will be returned. If $length is given and is 0, FALSE or NULL, an empty string will be returned. If
$length is omitted, the substring starting from $start until the end of the string will be returned.
Example #2
Using a negative $length
<?php
$rest = substr("abcdef", 0, -1); // returns "abcde"
$rest = substr("abcdef", 2, -1); // returns "cde"
$rest = substr("abcdef", 4, -4); // returns false
$rest = substr("abcdef", -3, -1); // returns "de"
?>
RETURN VALUES
Returns the extracted part of $string; or FALSE on failure, or an empty string.
CHANGELOG
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
|5.2.2 - 5.2.6 | |
| | |
| | If the $start parameter indicates the position |
| | of a negative truncation or beyond, false is |
| | returned. Other versions get the string from |
| | start. |
| | |
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #3
Basic substr(3) usage
<?php
echo substr('abcdef', 1); // bcdef
echo substr('abcdef', 1, 3); // bcd
echo substr('abcdef', 0, 4); // abcd
echo substr('abcdef', 0, 8); // abcdef
echo substr('abcdef', -1, 1); // f
// Accessing single characters in a string
// can also be achieved using "square brackets"
$string = 'abcdef';
echo $string[0]; // a
echo $string[3]; // d
echo $string[strlen($string)-1]; // f
?>
Example #4
substr(3) casting behaviour
<?php
class apple {
public function __toString() {
return "green";
}
}
echo "1) ".var_export(substr("pear", 0, 2), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "2) ".var_export(substr(54321, 0, 2), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "3) ".var_export(substr(new apple(), 0, 2), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "4) ".var_export(substr(true, 0, 1), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "5) ".var_export(substr(false, 0, 1), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "6) ".var_export(substr("", 0, 1), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "7) ".var_export(substr(1.2e3, 0, 4), true).PHP_EOL;
?>
The above example will output:
1) 'pe'
2) '54'
3) 'gr'
4) '1'
5) false
6) false
7) '1200'
ERRORS /EXCEPTIONS
Returns FALSE on error.
Example #5
<?php
var_dump(substr('a', 1)); // bool(false)
?>
SEE ALSO strrchr(3), substr_replace(3), preg_match(3), trim(3), mb_substr(3), wordwrap(3), String access and modification by character.
PHP Documentation Group SUBSTR(3)