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Old 01-11-2011
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Originally Posted by bartus11
Well, I've found another issue with your code Smilie. It will misbehave if some field contains "0" - it is counting it as an empty field :P
Smilie Thanks, here we go again:
Code:
awk -F: 'NR==1{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) c[i]=$i}
{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) a[i]+=$i==""?1:0}
END{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) print c[i] " - " a[i]}
' file

Last edited by Franklin52; 01-11-2011 at 10:19 AM..
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Old 01-11-2011
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""?1:0

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# 10  
Old 01-11-2011
Awesome. Thanks a lot to all of you for your quick response and test cases. It really helped me a lot. Thanking you once again.

Rinku
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