@MadeInGermany: Why should multiple / repeated "Pattern Substitution" not work on simple strings? No loop needed. With the variables as defined in post #16 (and falling back to bash and it's extglob / extended pattern matching):
You may apply another expansion to remove duplicate separators.
I have a variable which consists of a string like this:
001 aaabc 44 a bbb12
How do I extract each substring, delimited by the spaces, into new variables - one for each substring?
eg var1 will be 001, var2 will be aaabc, var3 will be 44, var4 will be a, etc?
I've come up with this:... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am an intermediate scripter. I can usually find and adapt what I need by searching through previous postings, but I'm stumped.
I have a string with the format "{Name1 Release1 Type1 Parent1} {Name2 Release2 Type2 Parent2}". It is being passed as an argument into a ksh script. I need to... (5 Replies)
I have a UNIX shell where:
LEVEL=dev
SITE=here
and WHEREIAM=/tmp/$SITE/location/$LEVEL
I want to echo $WHEREIAM in such a way that I get it back with all the environment variables resolved (/tmp/here/location/dev).
This command will be used in a shell script. (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm trying to extract the name of a script that is being run with a full path. i.e.
if the script name is /some/where/path/script_name.ksh
I'd like to extract only: script_name
i know that it is possible to do so in two phases:
echo "${0##*/}" will give me script_name.ksh
and... (4 Replies)
In a bash script I've set a variable that is the directory name of where an executable lives.
the_dir=`dirname $which myscript`
which equates to something like "/path/to/dir/bin"
I need to cut that down to remove the "bin" so I now have "/path/to/dir/".
This sounds easy but as a... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a paramter $param consisting just of two literals and want to split it into two parameters, so I can combine it to a new parameter <char1><string><char2>, but the following code didn't work:
tmp_PARAM_1=cut -c1 $PARAM
tmp_PARAM_2=cut -c2 $PARAM... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am facing a problem and I am not able to solve it.
I have already searched google, but nothing (maybe I am not using the correct key words).
As a database query result, I have a file like below:
fmv:/home/fmv/tmp>cat TestBackRef.txt
/^TEST\(\{4\}\)X\{12\}Y\.txt$/\0#\1/#Test... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to convert string "(joe.smith" into "joe_smith"
i.e. I need to remove the leading opening brace '(' and replace the dot '.' with an under score '_'
can anyone suggest a one liner ksh script or unix command for this please (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have used a bash script which ultimately converts a string into date using date --date option:
DATE=$DATE" "$TIME" "`date +%Y` //concatenating 2 strings
TMRW_DATE=`date --date="$DATE" +"%s"` //applying date command on string and getting the unixtime
Please use code tags... (7 Replies)
Hi, I have a variable with grep output like this:
WORDS=$(grep -r -c -i -E "palindrom" /"$DIRECTORY"/)
so "echo "$WORDS"" could be:
//directory/file1.txt:0
//directory/file2.txt:0
//directory/file3.txt:3
//directory/file4.txt:1
//directory/file5.txt:0
I need to "sed" my variable... (3 Replies)
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erl_format
erl_format(3erl) C Library Functions erl_format(3erl)NAME
erl_format - Create and Match Erlang Terms
DESCRIPTION
This module contains two routines - one general function for creating Erlang terms and one for pattern matching Erlang terms.
EXPORTS
ETERM * erl_format(FormatStr, ... )
Types char *FormatStr;
This is a general function for creating Erlang terms using a format specifier and a corresponding set of arguments, much in the way
printf() works.
FormatStr is a format specification string. The set of valid format specifiers is as follows:
* ~i - Integer
* ~f - Floating point
* ~a - Atom
* ~s - String
* ~w - Arbitrary Erlang term
For each format specifier that appears in FormatStr , there must be a corresponding argument following FormatStr . An Erlang term is
built according to the FormatStr with values and Erlang terms substituted from the corresponding arguments and according to the
individual format specifiers. For example:
erl_format("[{name,~a},{age,~i},{data,~w}]",
"madonna",
21,
erl_format("[{adr,~s,~i}]","E-street",42));
This will create an (ETERM *) structure corresponding to the Erlang term: [{name,madonna},{age,21},{data,[{adr,"E-street",42}]}]
The function returns an Erlang term, or NULL if FormatStr does not describe a valid Erlang term.
int erl_match(Pattern, Term)
Types ETERM *Pattern,*Term;
This function is used to perform pattern matching similar to that done in Erlang. Refer to an Erlang manual for matching rules and
more examples.
Pattern is an Erlang term, possibly containing unbound variables.
Term is an Erlang term that we wish to match against Pattern .
Term and Pattern are compared, and any unbound variables in Pattern are bound to corresponding values in Term .
If Term and Pattern can be matched, the function returns a non-zero value and binds any unbound variables in Pattern . If Term Pat-
tern do not match, the function returns 0. For example:
ETERM *term, *pattern, *pattern2;
term1 = erl_format("{14,21}");
term2 = erl_format("{19,19}");
pattern1 = erl_format("{A,B}");
pattern2 = erl_format("{F,F}");
if (erl_match(pattern1, term1)) {
/* match succeeds:
* A gets bound to 14,
* B gets bound to 21
*/
...
}
if (erl_match(pattern2, term1)) {
/* match fails because F cannot be
* bound to two separate values, 14 and 21
*/
...
}
if (erl_match(pattern2, term2)) {
/* match succeeds and F gets bound to 19 */
...
}
erl_var_content() can be used to retrieve the content of any variables bound as a result of a call to erl_match() .
Ericsson AB erl_interface 3.7.3 erl_format(3erl)