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# 1  
Old 09-03-2009
Question Fixed Width Join & Pad Sed/Awk Help
I was wondering someone might be able to push me in the right direction, I am writing a script to modify fixed-width spool files, As you can see below the original spool file broke a single line into two for printability sake.

I have had been able do the joins using sed, the thing I am stumbling on is how to properly pad the description field (ex. PODIATRY) to the maximum allowable position so that visually everything still adds up.

I would love to see a sed or awk solution or suggestion, my programming skills aren't as strong as most but I would love to see an efficient solution that I could sink my teeth into and figure out why it does what it does. Thanks in advance!

Input File:

Code:
 18 PODIATRY
              539    579.00      54588.73      23284.43         40.21       698    727.00      70887.59      28976.69         39.86
 19 O/P SURGICAL FACILITY
              388    352.00     864494.44     326688.71        928.09       389    385.00    1084639.25     318630.46        827.61
 38 THERAPY
             3111   3642.00     261919.67      61583.00         16.91      3150   3531.00     241123.29      70527.76         19.97
 39 DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

Output:
Code:
 18 PODIATRY                               539    579.00      54588.73      23284.43         40.21       698    727.00      70887.59      28976.69         39.86
 19 O/P SURGICAL FACILITY                  388    352.00     864494.44     326688.71        928.09       389    385.00    1084639.25     318630.46        827.61
 38 THERAPY                               3111   3642.00     261919.67      61583.00         16.91      3150   3531.00     241123.29      70527.76         19.97
 39 DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT              143    967.00      31939.99      12069.13         12.48       172    976.00      47575.54      20028.77         20.52

# 2  
Old 09-03-2009
kinda 'ugly' ('cause you have the embedded spaces in the SECOND 'field'), but.....
Code:
nawk '
  BEGIN {max=25}
  FNR%2{gsub(" ","_");$0=sprintf("%-*s",max,$0);gsub("_", " ");printf;next}
  1' myFile

# 3  
Old 09-03-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
kinda 'ugly' ('cause you have the embedded spaces in the SECOND 'field'), but.....
Code:
nawk '
  BEGIN {max=25}
  FNR%2{gsub(" ","_");$0=sprintf("%-*s",max,$0);gsub("_", " ");printf;next}
  1' myFile

Thanks for the reply, I seem to be encountering the following error:
nawk: line 3: no arguments in call to printf
# 4  
Old 09-03-2009
your nawk seems finicky :
Code:
nawk '
  BEGIN {max=25}
  FNR%2{gsub(" ","_");$0=sprintf("%-*s",max,$0);gsub("_", " ");printf $0;next}
  1' myFile

# 5  
Old 09-03-2009
Bug
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
your nawk seems finicky :
Code:
nawk '
  BEGIN {max=25}
  FNR%2{gsub(" ","_");$0=sprintf("%-*s",max,$0);gsub("_", " ");printf $0;next}
  1' myFile

Thanks! That looks much better, your code should give me the insight I need to massage it further. Thanks again!
# 6  
Old 09-03-2009
Another one:

Code:
awk 'NR%2{s=$0;getline;printf("%-25s%s\n", s, $0)}' file

# 7  
Old 09-03-2009
along the same lines as Franklin52:
Code:
nawk '
  FNR%2{s=sprintf("%-*s",max,$0);next}
  {printf("%-*s%s\n", max,s,$0)}' max=25 myFile
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