I tried your suggestion and it does not yeild any output. However, the tr command helps reconstruct the variable to have a single space only.
The challenge remains of how to get the first two words seperated by single space get stored as first array element and then the rest of the words as subsiquent array elements.
I'd like to create a variable with the value of X number of space( no Perl please), printf seems to work, but , in following example,10 spaces becomes 1 space when assinged to a variable, Why? other solutions are welcome.
$printf "=%10s=\n"
= =
$var=$(printf "=%10s=\n")
echo... (4 Replies)
hello,
i have this string:
variable="1234 /PARAMETER_1:text /PARAMETER_2:othertext"
i tried to do
expr match $variable '.*\(*\)'
but i keep getting expr error
i need to extract the word text...
thank you (4 Replies)
I have an array and two variables as below,
I need to check if $datevar is present in $filename.
If so, i need to replace $filename with the values in the array.
I need the output inside an ARRAY
How can this be done.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
Hi everybody!!
Here is the thing; I have a trouble in this simple situation, I'm trying to write an array with all the arguments of a command. I mean, if I have:
./mycommand.sh aa bb cc dd
I need to take an array like this:
myarray=(aa bb cc dd)
So I use a simple for loop like this:
for... (4 Replies)
Hi guys and gals...
MacBook Pro.
OSX 10.13.2, default bash terminal.
I have a flat file 1920 bytes in size of whitespaces only. I need to put every single whitespace character into a bash array cell.
Below are two methods that work, but both are seriously ugly.
The first one requires that I... (7 Replies)
Hi Experts
I have an escape seperated fields in the unix file. And in the below format file I need to extract the first column. Please help its urgent.
cat -v op.dat | head
24397028^
I want to extract the file in below format ( with only first column )
24397028
2439707
thanks.
... (6 Replies)
I will start with an example of what I'm trying to do and then describe how I am approaching the issue.
File
PS028,005
Lexeme HRS # M #
PhraseType 1(1:1) 7(7)
PhraseLab 501 503
ClauseType ZYq0
PS028,005
Lexeme W # L> # BNH # M #... (17 Replies)
Discussion started by: jvoot
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strsplit
STRSPLIT(3pub) C Programmer's Manual STRSPLIT(3pub)NAME
strsplit - split string into words
SYNOPSIS
#include <publib.h>
int strsplit(char *src, char **words, int maxw, const char *sep);
DESCRIPTION
strsplit splits the src string into words separated by one or more of the characters in sep (or by whitespace characters, as specified by
isspace(3), if sep is the empty string). Pointers to the words are stored in successive elements in the array pointed to by words. No
more than maxw pointers are stored. The input string is modifed by replacing the separator character following a word with '