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# 8  
Old 08-23-2010
Please show sample input and sample output.
May be being thick but I can't see what the array sum[i] is for.
# 9  
Old 08-23-2010
Hi scottn, yes you're right, its not an awk error. I'm using this statement in a ksh script on solaris... :-)

I'm basically trying to send in a .csv file full of numbers and N/A's and getting the sum appended to it..

Code:
awk  -F"," '{for (i=1;i<=NF ; ++i) { if($i !~ /N\/A/) {sum[i] += $i;}} if (i > max) max=i }
    END { s=""; for (i=1; i<=max; ++i) { printf "%s%s", s, sum[i]; s=",";} printf "\n" }' format.csv > ffname
    cat format.csv

format.csv is something like this

Code:
20100803,N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, , 
20100804, 183,  234,  29,  31,  0,  0,  0,  0,  25,  127,  6,  21,  285,  49,  0,  0,  0,  0,  217,  2,  27,  0,  968,  332, 
20100802,N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, , 
20100803,N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, ,

I'm adding the columns corresponding to the dates...

so my result should be :-

Code:
183,  234,  29,  31,  0,  0,  0,  0,  25,  127,  6,  21,  285,  49,  0,  0,  0,  0,  217,  2,  27,  0,  968,  332,

I'm getting the result but with this error on the console, which i don't want...

Code:
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator



---------- Post updated at 09:43 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:40 PM ----------

@methyl : - sum[i] is the array that holds my column sum...
# 10  
Old 08-23-2010
Hi.

You probably want to change the for(i=1;... to for(i=2;... to exclude those large date numbers at the start.

Apart from that, from the code you show (none of which is ksh), this work fine in Solaris (10):

Code:
$ ./SumUp
183,234,29,31,0,0,0,0,25,127,6,21,285,49,0,0,0,0,217,2,27,0,968,332,0,0,

What is at "line 71"?

Add:

Code:
set -x

at the top of your script (after the shebang, if you have one) and post the output.
Last edited by Scott; 08-23-2010 at 01:45 PM.. Reason: Haha... those "PK-looking numbers" are dates!
# 11  
Old 08-23-2010
Thanks. Didn't realise you were summing columns not rows. I think one or two other posters made the same assumption.


This error message comes from shell not awk. The "71" is a line number very near to the error within a shell script called "finale4".
Quote:
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator


---------- Post updated at 17:34 ---------- Previous update was at 17:25 ----------

We can generate a similar error using a test script with the same name as yours.


Code:
#!/bin/ksh
if [ "abc" N/A, "abc" ]
then
        echo "ok"
fi

./finale4[2]: N/A,: unknown test operator

Last edited by methyl; 08-23-2010 at 01:35 PM.. Reason: paste error
# 12  
Old 08-24-2010
it's quite a long piece of code. I've used the awk commands in ksh. Tried with (for i=2..) but in vain...

set -x gave me the following output..

Code:
+ writer_reader
finale4[89]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
finale4[71]: N/A,: unknown test operator
+ [ 1 -lt 1 ]
+ exit

writer_reader is the name of the function where this command is used. I've put only a part of the console o/p above (the one that concerns the error).

---------- Post updated at 01:45 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:59 AM ----------

what does the number in the [] bracket indicate exactly? It is not the line number, of that i am sure. Then what is it and how do i identify the location of the error?
# 13  
Old 08-24-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by pravsripad
iwhat does the number in the [] bracket indicate exactly? It is not the line number, of that i am sure. Then what is it and how do i identify the location of the error?
It is (albeit sometimes incredibly vaguely) related to the error - quite often the last point at which it doesn't make any sense to continue.

I don't really want to spend my day guessing, and second-guessing where your problem might be.

So at this point I would suggest that you post your script (at least the first 100 lines of it).
# 14  
Old 08-24-2010
Hi, the script is 1000 line huge... The error is definitely coming from those three lines... Could it be that the "," is also getting input along with the "N/A" .... i mean the "N/A," will it matter.. ?
Tried but didn't work.
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