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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Make awk gsub take value of for loop Post 303013812 by bedtime on Wednesday 28th of February 2018 05:13:03 PM
Old 02-28-2018
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Originally Posted by Don Cragun
But, please stop trying to hide the logic in your code! Make it obvious.
Was not intentional. Just a thing of habit.

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It isn't immediately obvious what isn't working in this example and you don't give us any indication of what you think it is doing wrong.
Yes, I have to be more clear. I got it working though. It was a silly mistake of not watching the correct text that I was replacing; it was actually working all along. Smilie

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Note that the <space> after <orth> will be treated as a field separator, not as part of the string to be replaced. Note also that with many of your search patterns (many of which contain <space>s) and replacement patterns (many of which contain <space>s), using code like the above will give you more than 2 fields in the created array unless you use a different array element separator and add an ERE to your split() call specifying the character(s) in your separator as the element separator.
Yes, found this to be the case. And I've decided to keep the code as it was for now-this is a little too deep for me atm and not entirely necessary for the program to work... As for the other code, I've shortened it up abit.

Just a note: I've started to make this program in C++; it seems that it could benefit from the speed and features. Already, the C++ program can open a file and extract, replace, and print a few text combinations; so you may not see me posting for a little bit in the Shell Programming Forum, but I will still be using awk for the many things that it can do! Smilie
 

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