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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace Value of nth Column of Each Line Using Array Post 303014081 by Don Cragun on Sunday 4th of March 2018 08:43:58 PM
Old 03-04-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by abdulbadii
Code:
awk  'NR==FNR { a[$1]=$4; next } {if ($2 == a[array1]) $2=a[array2] }' FS=,={} arrayfile FS=, inputfile

Hi abdulbadii,
Would you please explain how the above script is supposed to do something related to the topic of this thread?

If I slightly modify your script to add a debugging statement showing how the array a is set:
Code:
awk  '
NR==FNR {
	a[$1]=$4
	printf("a[%s] has been set to \"%s\"\n", $1, $4)
	next
}
{	if ($2 == a[array1])
		$2=a[array2]
}
' FS=,={} arrayfile FS=, inputfile

it produces the output:
Code:
a[Array1={A, B, C}] has been set to ""
a[Array2= {U09, C04, A054}] has been set to ""

when the arrayfile and inputfile files contain the data shown in post #1 in this thread.

Note that since neither of the awk variables array1 and array2 have been set, the if statement will never find a match. And, even if a match were found and the 2nd field was changed to an empty string by the assignment, what difference would it make? There is nothing in this awk script that produces any output.

Note also that using the fixed string =,={} as a field separator for the 1st input file seems strange since that string is never found in either of your input files. That means that each line will be field #1 for that line and field $4 in each line will be an empty string (which is exactly what we see from the added debugging statement).
 

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ARRAY_INTERSECT_KEY(3)							 1						    ARRAY_INTERSECT_KEY(3)

array_intersect_key - Computes the intersection of arrays using keys for comparison

SYNOPSIS
array array_intersect_key (array $array1, array $array2, [array $...]) DESCRIPTION
array_intersect_key(3) returns an array containing all the entries of $array1 which have keys that are present in all the arguments. PARAMETERS
o $array1 - The array with master keys to check. o $array2 - An array to compare keys against. o $... - A variable list of arrays to compare. RETURN VALUES
Returns an associative array containing all the entries of $array1 which have keys that are present in all arguments. EXAMPLES
Example #1 array_intersect_key(3) example <?php $array1 = array('blue' => 1, 'red' => 2, 'green' => 3, 'purple' => 4); $array2 = array('green' => 5, 'blue' => 6, 'yellow' => 7, 'cyan' => 8); var_dump(array_intersect_key($array1, $array2)); ?> The above example will output: array(2) { ["blue"]=> int(1) ["green"]=> int(3) } In our example you see that only the keys 'blue' and 'green' are present in both arrays and thus returned. Also notice that the values for the keys 'blue' and 'green' differ between the two arrays. A match still occurs because only the keys are checked. The values returned are those of $array1. The two keys from the key => value pairs are considered equal only if (string) $key1 === (string) $key2 . In other words a strict type check is executed so the string representation must be the same. SEE ALSO
array_diff(3), array_udiff(3), array_diff_assoc(3), array_diff_uassoc(3), array_udiff_assoc(3), array_udiff_uassoc(3), array_diff_key(3), array_diff_ukey(3), array_intersect(3), array_intersect_assoc(3), array_intersect_uassoc(3), array_intersect_ukey(3). PHP Documentation Group ARRAY_INTERSECT_KEY(3)
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