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That is excellent Don
Thank you for your help
Much simpler than what I was envisaging.

All I have to do now is to understand it all so I can embed it in my brain for nest time

Ken

This is for a 2 line input file that shows the error for the first line only
I assume because there are no blanks in the line directly before the return?

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Awesome thanks That fixed that particular problem

The only issue now is the lines that have no trailing comma. in that case the line is split after the $event code.

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is that correct format? adding that gives an error on Line 39 @ 40 ( line 39 is the file input line)
./test: line 39: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'

[QUOTE=Don Cragun;302958814]You can't get an exit code of -1 from a process run by the shell.
Ok thanks


And having two nested loops reading from the same file can't work.
Ok thanks That was...

Thanks Rudi
I am unsure of how to make the requirement clearer so will include the entire file, script and output format sample.

Getting to your code snippet, how does the $event get populated...

As mentioned in the previous reply
OS = Linux, Bash Shell

Part of my existing code below which pulls my required variables out already


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Hi Don
The extra data you mention is hardcoded in the output format, or comes from the input line which I have already, written to variables as i need.
No issue with that it is just how i get the...

I have a .csv file that has been create from a google form and I need to extract the data from it that has been entered by users.
The CSV will have anywhere between 100 and 1000 lines which...

Yes that is correct. I only just realised that I made a typo and should have written Cnum = 53

I suppose my proof reading needs to improve to avoid confusion.

Thanks again
Ken

Thank you Rudi,
this was exactly what i need to achieve and probably the easiest way to do it.
A Single line of code to read an external file and write the data to 2 variables.

Thanks to all...

Hi all
I have a problem where i have a large list ( up to 1000 of items) and need to have 2 items pulled from it into variables in a bash script

my list is like the following and I could have it...

Hi robin we do have a happy Questioner :-)
Lots of great ideas and solutions in here.

the reason I did not want to run either sed or awk is that the number in question is clipped out of a much...

Thank you all for your solutions
Looks like my little problem created quite an interesting discussion :b:

Ken

Awesome thank you very much that is exactly what I need to achieve:b:

Thanks
Ken

Sorry for that and thanks
Yes i would like the output without the leading zeros as per this
$ awk '{$1+=0}1' file

Is there a way to do it using string processing rather than calling awk? ...

I have a list of numbers extracted and need to delete the leading zeros from them, but when i do so, the command I am using also deletes numbers that end in Zero as well. eg 10, 20, 30, etc

this...

Thanks Rudi :b:
I have read so much over the last few days re this and did not even think to use the shell. Looking at awk, sed and such and probably making life hard at the same time!

when at...

I have a text file that has many lines, and for each line I need to extract different sections of text, then write several variables from the data.
I can split out the various sections by selecting...

thanks I just figured it out.

My original input file had an extra blank line in it that was causing the issue

Thanks For you help

Ken

thank you bot and they do work, Except they run another iteration after the final line in the file.

thus they ask the user for input on a blank lime and write a Blank entry in the array

Any...

I need to read a file line by line, then depending on the contents of each line, type in a code that will get written to an array.

The problem I have is when I ask the user to confirm the input...

Cool Thank you all for your help.:b:
I am quite amazed that so many replies on a sunday

Ken

Excellent Thanks that works.:b:

Now all I need to do is review it in detail to understand how it works and hopefully remember it, but that is a task for me.

Re reading back thru the thread I...

the original file had "C 56" as the line but to test I also tried the other possibilities
"C 56" , "C 6", "C156"
Each iteration gave a following space in the outputted file and I just quoted the...