nice to hear that you worked your way through and thanks for giving feedback.
Some comments:
That's why I pointed out XPath for you twice and presented you links for a good and short tutorial. Read the great manuals out there! Read it and you will be lesser dependant on others.
I would suggest to avoid that. With this step, the complexity of the task had risen for no good reason. I understand why you did it(just to get the task done - did that myself in the past), but I recommend to better invest the time to get the data out of the original format. That's most likely possible with jq - even if it needs the work to get familiar with jq. Otherwise you carry the increased complexity, increased error possibility, increased resource footprint with that task from now on.
An alternative to jq may be a small php script, that generates the csv.
If you like, show the original json...
(and sometimes a quick and dirty hack is just fine too)
That's the thing with jq:
It's more like the approach that didn't work with xml. ;-)
I did find those links you gave me but they where still a bit confusing and i would say limited in what i needed. Too be honest i did not have that much time either as i spend already almost a week on this with xmlstarlet alone.
As you mention this was a cheat but transforming the json to xml but this was also because i am severly limited in time and knowledge of jq. I actually did try a couple days and then i gave up because of the time constraints. Seeing your code however makes it look quite easy and even less fault sensitive. When i have some time i will actually try it out and let you know here about the (hopefully) success of the jq way.
I just tested jq but something seems not to work. I edited your piece of code to work with the json string:
but this gave me an error:
Last edited by SDohmen; 09-17-2019 at 05:15 AM..
Reason: Tested jq
Hi,
Can anyone tell the option to change the file type in unix.
i.e. if a file is in csv(Comma Separating Values) format, it should be changed to xls(ordinary MS-Excel) format. But renaming command is not changing to correct file format.
Thanks in advance,
Milton. (1 Reply)
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11 051701
22 051701
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222 3333 44444 55 55 55 55 5555 59999
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Hello Friends,
I am new to UNIX shell scripting. Using bash....Could you please help me in converting a flat file into an XML style output file.
Flat file: (Input File entries looks like this)
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The... (4 Replies)
Hej All,
I have a file like this which is a comma dilimited:
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6000318,-263.011520678,-59.05869872409,587.67924868792
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Hi Friends,
I want to convert a XML file to flat file.
Sample I/p:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
cgi::xml
XML(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation XML(3pm)NAME
CGI::XML - Perl extension for converting CGI.pm variables to/from XML
SYNOPSIS
use CGI::XML;
$q = new CGI::XML;
# convert CGI.pm variables to XML
$xml = $q->toXML;
$xml = $q->toXML($root);
# convert XML to CGI.pm variables
$q->toCGI($xml);
DESCRIPTION
The CGI::XML module converts CGI.pm variables to XML and vice versa.
CGI::XML is a subclass of CGI.pm, so it reads the CGI variables just as CGI.pm would.
METHODS
$q = new CGI::XML
creates a new instance of CGI::XML. You also have access to all of the methods in CGI.pm.
$q->toXML([$root])
where $root is an optional parameter that specifies the root element. By default, toXML will not return a root element.
$q->toCGI($xml)
where $xml is the XML you would like to convert to CGI.pm parameters. Values in the XML will overwrite any existing values if they
exist.
NOTE
CGI::XML does not currently handle multiple selections passed from HTML forms. This will be added in a future release.
AUTHOR
Jonathan Eisenzopf <eisen@pobox.com>
CONTRIBUTORS
David Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net>
SEE ALSO perl(1), XML::Parser(3).
perl v5.8.8 2004-12-05 XML(3pm)