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Old 05-19-2011
Instring in awk
Hi,
I have the below data

ownername/schemaname/tablename/columnname in a file ( 2nd column)

I want to convert everthing to upper case except the column name like below

OWNERNAME/SCHEMANAME/TABLENAME/columnname

do we have a instring function in awk to handle this.

Thx,shruthi
# 2  
Old 05-19-2011
toupper() is the function you need:

Code:
$ echo 'ownername/schemaname/tablename/columnname' | awk  '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i!~/columnname/){$i=toupper($i)}}print}' FS='/' OFS='/'
OWNERNAME/SCHEMANAME/TABLENAME/columnname

# 3  
Old 05-19-2011
Try...
Code:
$ cat file1
data ownername/schemaname/tablename/columnname data

$ awk 'match($2,".*/"){$2=toupper(substr($2,RSTART,RLENGTH)) substr($2,RLENGTH+1)};1' file1
data OWNERNAME/SCHEMANAME/TABLENAME/columnname data

http://people.cs.uu.nl/piet/docs/nawk/nawk_92.html
# 4  
Old 05-19-2011
Code:
awk -F/ '{x=$NF;NF=NF-1;$1=$1;print toupper($0),x}' OFS=/ infile

Code:
$ cat tst
ownername/schemaname/tablename/columnname
$ awk -F/ '{x=$NF;NF=NF-1;$1=$1;print toupper($0),x}' OFS=/ tst
OWNERNAME/SCHEMANAME/TABLENAME/columnname

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