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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting A better way to compare text length percentage? Post 303046128 by bedtime on Friday 24th of April 2020 07:27:11 PM
Old 04-24-2020
Quote:
Originally Posted by sea
Thats why I prefer functions:
Code:
bigger_value()  { # str1 str2
    [[ ! 2 -eq $# ]] && echo "Usage: $FUNCNAME str1 str2" >&2 && return 1
    echo ${#1} ${#2} | awk '{a=b=$1;($1>$2)?a=$2:b=$2;if(a*b){print int(100/a*b)}}' >&1
    return $?
 }

hth
I prefer to only use functions when I'm going to use them more than once in my code. In this case, it's only used once.


Quote:
EDIT:
But you still need to figure out a way to 'remove the option' to pass an empty string.
And without knowing how/where you get those strings, we can not help.
The strings are regular text. So long as the examples as we've used them work, the program will work. As to the empty string, the code to not run if one or more strings are 0 in length works well enough for me.
Last edited by bedtime; 04-24-2020 at 08:55 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

class_create

class_create(3) 					     Library Functions Manual						   class_create(3)

NAME

       class_create - Create a new class

LIBRARY

       Standard C Library (libclass.a)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <apar_types.h> #include <sys/class.h>

       class_change(class_apar_handle_t handle, char *class_name, struct resource_limits *limits);

PARAMETERS

       The  partition  descriptor returned by class_open().  The name of the class to change.  The input is the new resource limits, the output is
       the resources available.

DESCRIPTION

       Create a new class.  The created class will be empty.  Use  class_add() to populate the class.  If the value of percent	causes	the  total
       percentage of all classes to exceed 100%, the call will fail and avail will contain the remaining  percentage available.

       Specify	CLASS_RESOURCE_SCHED_DISABLED for the target limit of any resource that is not needed.

       Note that the calling process must have root access privileges.

RETURN VALUES

       The  operation  was  successfully  completed.   An  invalid  partition  handle  was specified.  The class_name is not an ASCII string.  The
       class_name already exists.  No space available in class_name.  The requested percentage not is  not  in	the  range  0  -  100  or  is  not
       CLASS_RESOURCE_SCHED_DISABLED  or  CLASS_RESOURCE_SCHED_DISABLED.   Requested  percentage  not available. The struct resource_percent <xxx-
       available> (where xxx is an integer in the range 0-100 representing percentage) will contain  the maximum available percentage.

SEE ALSO

       Functions:class_init(3), class_change(3), class_close(3), class_configure(3), class_get_config_stats(3),  class_close(3),  class_delete(3),
       class_destroy(3),    class_disable(3),	 class_enable(3),   class_save_database(3),   class_restore_database(3),   class_load_database(3),
       class_change_name(3),	class_database_file_exists(3),	  class_database_name(3),    class_database_modified(3),     class_get_classes(3),
       class_get_class_members(3),

       Commands:class_admin(8), runclass(1), class_scheduling(4)

       Other: The System Administration guide.	delim off

																   class_create(3)
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