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Old 10-29-2009
Help merging two files if search pattern true.

Hello everyone,

I've been reading this forum whenever I had a problem with AWK but I can't seem to find how to solve my problem.

What I would like to do is the following:

I have a first file with two columns, on the first one is a certain name and in the second one, another corresponding name.

In my second file, I would like to search for a certain pattern, and if that pattern is found, search $3 of this line in the second row of file1 and replace it with the corresponding $1 of file 1.


I can always do fairly well with awk on one file, but I don't know how to use two files, I'm a bit lost with the NR==FNR thingy, so your help would be very much appreciated.

Here is what file1 look like:

Code:
HAL_MONTxData10    HAL_MONTxData10.HAL_IOInterface
HAL_MONTxData11    HAL_MONTxData11.HAL_IOInterface
...

And here is what file2 looks like:
Code:
...
  /begin MEASUREMENT HAL_MONTxData10.HAL_IOInterface 
   "" 
   UWORD 
   ident 
   1 
   100
   0 
   65535 
   ECU_ADDRESS 0x4000A8C8
  /end MEASUREMENT 
  /begin MEASUREMENT HAL_MONTxData11.HAL_IOInterface
   "" 
   UWORD 
   ident 
   1 
   100
   0 
   65535 
   ECU_ADDRESS 0x4000A8CA
  /end MEASUREMENT 
...

So, to sum things up I would like my return file to be like:

Code:
  /begin MEASUREMENT HAL_MONTxData10
   "" 
   UWORD 
   ident 
   1 
   100
   0 
   65535 
   ECU_ADDRESS 0x4000A8C8
  /end MEASUREMENT 
  /begin MEASUREMENT HAL_MONTxData11 
   "" 
   UWORD 
   ident 
   1 
   100
   0 
   65535 
   ECU_ADDRESS 0x4000A8CA
  /end MEASUREMENT


Thanks a lot for your help.

Teroc

Last edited by Franklin52; 10-29-2009 at 08:07 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
# 2  
Old 10-29-2009
something like this :

Code:
cat f1 :

HAL_MONTxData10 HAL_MONTxData10.HAL_IOInterface
HAL_MONTxData11 HAL_MONTxData11.HAL_IOInterface

other data in file2.

awk 'NR==FNR {a[$2]=$1} { if ($3 in a) {$3=a[$3]} }1' f1 f2

# 3  
Old 10-29-2009
Thank you it did the trick, I think I understand how that works now. Thanks for the lesson Smilie

One last thing, when I run this script, the file1 is written in the ouput before the corrected file2. Why? NR==FNR {a[$2]=$1} isn't supposed to output anything, is it?

thanks again.
# 4  
Old 10-29-2009
ohhh..

Sorry missed a bit.

Code:
awk 'NR==FNR {a[$2]=$1;next} { if ($3 in a) {$3=a[$3]} }1' f1 f2

# 5  
Old 10-29-2009
Thank you a lot Panyam!
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