Regexes enclosed in slashes /.../ are regex constants, i.e. taken verbatim / literally. So a won't be replaced by its contents but matches "a".
Try to build the regex from partial string constants and variable contents, like e.g.
Code:
gsub("level=\"" a "\" n=\"[0-9]\"", "")
Not sure, though, what your intentions are with the square brackets around the a variable. And, why not a taylored regex (with "alternation") in lieu of the loop across a .
Some decent input (good and bad, i.e. to be matched or not) samples would help to understand what you're after.
Hi all,
This problem has cost me half a day, and i still do not know how to do.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks advance.
I want to use a variable as the first parameters of gsub function of awk.
Example:
{
...
arri]=gsub(i,tolower(i),$1)
(which should be ambraced by //)
...
} (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have a variable that displays the following results from a JVM....
1602100K->1578435K
I would like to collect the value of 1578435 which is the value after a garbage collection. I've tried the following command but it looks like I can't get the > to work. Any suggestions as... (4 Replies)
Hi all
I want to do a simple substitution in awk but I am getting unexpected output. My function accepts a time and then prints out a validation message if the time is valid. However some times may include a : and i want to strip this out if it exists before i get to the validation. I have shown... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Can some one please explain the following line please throw some light on the ones marked in red
awk '{print $9}' ${FTP_LOG} | awk -v start=${START_DATE} 'BEGIN { FS = "." } { old_line1=$0; gsub(/\-/,""); if ( $3 >= start ) print old_line1 }' | awk -v end=${END_DATE} 'BEGIN { FS="." } {... (3 Replies)
I want to replace comma with space and "*646#" with space.
I am using the following code:
nawk -F"|" '{gsub(","," ",$3); gsub(/\*646\#/"," ",$3);print}' OFS="|" file
I am getting following error:
Help is appreciated (5 Replies)
Hey,
I would like to replace a string by a new one. Teh problem is that both strings should be variables to be flexible, because I am having a lot of files (with the same structure, but in different folders)
for i in daysim_*
do
cd $i/5/
folder=`pwd |awk '{print $1}'`
awk '{ if... (3 Replies)
Hi, I want to print the first column with original value and without any double quotes
The output should look like
<original column>|<column without quotes>
$ cat a.txt
"20121023","19301229712","100397"
"20121023","19361629712","100778"
"20121030A","19361630412","100838"... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to substitute a string with leading zero for all the records except the trailer record using awk command and with variables. The input file test_med1.txt has data like below
1234ABC...........................9200............LF... (2 Replies)
Hi ALL,
I want to replace string occurrence in my file "Config" using a external file named "Mapping" using awk.
$cat Config
! Configuration file for RAVI
! Configuration file for RACHANA
! Configuration file for BALLU
$cat Mapping
ravi:ram
rachana:shyam
ballu:hameed
The... (5 Replies)
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re_comp
RE_COMP(3) Linux Programmer's Manual RE_COMP(3)NAME
re_comp, re_exec - BSD regex functions
SYNOPSIS
#define _REGEX_RE_COMP
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <regex.h>
char *re_comp(char *regex);
int re_exec(char *string);
DESCRIPTION
re_comp() is used to compile the null-terminated regular expression pointed to by regex. The compiled pattern occupies a static area, the
pattern buffer, which is overwritten by subsequent use of re_comp(). If regex is NULL, no operation is performed and the pattern buffer's
contents are not altered.
re_exec() is used to assess whether the null-terminated string pointed to by string matches the previously compiled regex.
RETURN VALUE
re_comp() returns NULL on successful compilation of regex otherwise it returns a pointer to an appropriate error message.
re_exec() returns 1 for a successful match, zero for failure.
CONFORMING TO
4.3BSD.
NOTES
These functions are obsolete; the functions documented in regcomp(3) should be used instead.
SEE ALSO regcomp(3), regex(7), GNU regex manual
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GNU 1995-07-14 RE_COMP(3)