I don't think you can have a swiss army knife solution to a wild card problem. Please decently describe the data conents / structure in all cases, for every case, in detail. Are above the only three cases, or are there more? Is that pipe symbol enclosed in spaces or not always? Could it be used as a field separator? WIll the more-than-four-line data always be using braces to enclose the last field? One level of braces only?
You seem to want to print sth. like
in the "good cases". What should be the output in the "FAILED" cases? What in the multiline case?
You could use sth. like this to get the full records to operate upon:
Hi,
I have data with broken lines:
Sample data:
"12"|"25"|"a"|"b"|"c"|"d"|"e"|"f"|"2453748"|"08:10:50"
"16"|"25"|"a"|"b"|"c"|"d"|"e"|"f"|"
2453748"|"08:15:50"
"16"|"25"|"a"|"b"|"
c"|"d"|"e"|"f"|"2453748"|"08:19:50"
"16"|"25"|"a"|"b"|"c"|"d"|"e"|"f"|"2453748"|"08:19:50"
In the... (5 Replies)
Hi everyone!
I'm not new to Unix, but I've never used awk before.
I tried to look up this information on several sites and forums,
I also looked in the documentation but I haven't found a solution yet.
I would like to print the previous 3 lines before and the following 4 lines after the... (6 Replies)
Hi everyboby
this is my problem
I Have this input
1111;222
222
2;333
3333;4444
111;
22222;33
33;
444
and I need this output
1111;2222222;3333333;4444 (15 Replies)
say I'm doing awk 'NR==534'
Is there a way to display 534 535 536 537?
without appending to a variable? per line? maybe an easier way with a different command?
My first impression was NR==534-537 but that would be too easy :P (2 Replies)
Hi.
I need to filter lines based upon matches in multiple tab-separated columns. For all matching occurrences in column 1, check the corresponding column 4. IF all column 4 entries are identical, discard all lines. If even one entry in column 4 is different, then keep all lines.
How can I... (5 Replies)
What is the correct syntax to have the awk parse the next line as well? The next in bold is where I think it should go, but I wanted to ask the experts since I am a beginner. The file to be parsed is attached as well. Thank you :).
awk 'NR==2 {split($2,a,"");b=substr(a,1,length(a-1));print... (6 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a large csv file where there are four types of rows I need to merge into one row per person, where there is a column for each possible code / type of row, even if that code/row isn't there for that person.
In the csv, a person may be listed from one to four times... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: RalphNY
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case
case(n) Tcl Built-In Commands case(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
case - Evaluate one of several scripts, depending on a given value
SYNOPSIS
case string ?in? patList body ?patList body ...?
case string ?in? {patList body ?patList body ...?}
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
Note: the case command is obsolete and is supported only for backward compatibility. At some point in the future it may be removed
entirely. You should use the switch command instead.
The case command matches string against each of the patList arguments in order. Each patList argument is a list of one or more patterns.
If any of these patterns matches string then case evaluates the following body argument by passing it recursively to the Tcl interpreter
and returns the result of that evaluation. Each patList argument consists of a single pattern or list of patterns. Each pattern may con-
tain any of the wild-cards described under string match. If a patList argument is default, the corresponding body will be evaluated if no
patList matches string. If no patList argument matches string and no default is given, then the case command returns an empty string.
Two syntaxes are provided for the patList and body arguments. The first uses a separate argument for each of the patterns and commands;
this form is convenient if substitutions are desired on some of the patterns or commands. The second form places all of the patterns and
commands together into a single argument; the argument must have proper list structure, with the elements of the list being the patterns
and commands. The second form makes it easy to construct multi-line case commands, since the braces around the whole list make it unneces-
sary to include a backslash at the end of each line. Since the patList arguments are in braces in the second form, no command or variable
substitutions are performed on them; this makes the behavior of the second form different than the first form in some cases.
SEE ALSO
switch(n)
KEYWORDS
case, match, regular expression
Tcl 7.0 case(n)