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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to insert strings at certain position Post 89612 by whatisthis on Monday 14th of November 2005 03:37:50 PM
Old 11-14-2005
Is there anyway that I can do it within awk?
Hi,
I am trying to utilize length function to calculate the postion to insert the string.


BEGIN { FS = "," }
i=length($2)
{printf "%s %s %s\n", $1,$2,substr("0",28-i}


It's just idea now. I am working to get it work.


??
 

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GLDEBUGMESSAGEINSERT(3G)					   OpenGL Manual					  GLDEBUGMESSAGEINSERT(3G)

NAME

       glDebugMessageInsert - inject an application-supplied message into the debug message queue

C SPECIFICATION

       void glDebugMessageInsert(GLenum source, GLenum type, GLuint id, GLenum severity, GLsizei length, const char *message);

PARAMETERS

       source
	   The source of the debug message to insert.

       type
	   The type of the debug message insert.

       id
	   The user-supplied identifier of the message to insert.

       severity
	   The severity of the debug messages to insert.

       length
	   The length string contained in the character array whose address is given by message.

       message
	   The address of a character array containing the message to insert.

DESCRIPTION

       glDebugMessageInsert inserts a user-supplied message into the debug output queue.  source specifies the source that will be used to
       classify the message and must be GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_APPLICATION or GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_THIRD_PARTY. All other sources are reserved for use by the
       GL implementation.  type indicates the type of the message to be inserted and may be one of GL_DEBUG_TYPE_ERROR,
       GL_DEBUG_TYPE_DEPRECATED_BEHAVIOR, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_UNDEFINED_BEHAVIOR, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PORTABILITY, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PERFORMANCE, or
       GL_DEBUG_TYPE_OTHER.  severity indicates the severity of the message and may be GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_LOW, GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_MEDIUM, or
       GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_HIGH.	id is available for application defined use and may be any value. This value will be recorded and used to identify
       the message.

       length contains a count of the characters in the character array whose address is given in message. If length is negative then message is
       treated as a null-terminated string. The length of the message, whether specified explicitly or implicitly, must be less than or equal to
       the implementation defined constant GL_MAX_DEBUG_MESSAGE_LENGTH.

ERRORS

       GL_INVALID_ENUM is generated if any of source, type or severity is not one of the accepted interface types.

       GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if the length of the message is greater than the value of GL_MAX_DEBUG_MESSAGE_LENGTH.

SEE ALSO

       glDebugMessageControl(), glDebugMessageCallback(), glGetDebugMessageLog().

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