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# 8  
Old 11-01-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by danmero
Code:
awk 'NR==FNR{x=length($0)>x?length($0):x;next}{gsub(FS,OFS);while(length($0)<x)$0=$0OFS}1' OFS=B file file

what does this code do and where should i place it or replace it?

thanks.
# 9  
Old 11-02-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by nanochan1
what does this code do and where should i place it or replace it?

thanks.
If you look close enough both of the solutions take input a file named 'file' in case of danmero's hint or 'myFile' in my case.
Just run the solution(s) with whatever input file name you have.
Am I answer your question or misreading it?
# 10  
Old 11-02-2011
Cant this:
Code:
awk 'NR==FNR{x=length($0)>x?length($0):x;next}{gsub(FS,OFS);while(length($0)<x)$0=$0OFS}1' OFS=B file file

and this
Code:
tr ' ' '#' < myFile  | sed 's/##/ B/g;s/#/ /g'

Be simplified to this:
Code:
sed 's/ /B/g' file

and this
Code:
sed 's/  / B/g' myFile

# 11  
Old 11-03-2011
stop giving others false hope
Last edited by nanochan1; 11-03-2011 at 03:00 PM..
# 12  
Old 11-03-2011
The data you've shown below doesn't remotely resemble what you showed earlier. Smilie

What is the actual input you have and what is the actual output you want and what do they have to do with each other? And what shell are you using? Smilie

Quote:
Originally Posted by nanochan1
thanks.

so if i have a command

Code:
OIFS=$IFS
    IFS=$'\n'
    index=1
    for LINE in `cat test.txt`
    do
        fileTemp[$index]=$LINE
        let index++
    done
    seatsAvail=`echo ${fileTemp[$testNo]} | cut -f2 -d ":"`    
    seatsAvailArray=(`echo $seatsAvail | tr "  " "\n" `)
    totalSeats=${#seatsAvailArray[*]}

That's a dangerous use of backticks and useless use of cat.

This is faster and safer:

Code:
while IFS="" read LINE
do
        ...
done < filename.txt

This can be modified further, since read can do splitting by itself:

Code:
while IFS=":" read A B
do
        # $A iwill be "10", $B will be "A1 B1 D2 ..."
done < filename.txt

# 13  
Old 11-03-2011
i thought what he meant is that my "this" part of the code is wrong ?
# 14  
Old 11-03-2011
I can't see what you're even trying to do, so it's very difficult to offer suggestions.

If you answered any of the questions I asked at all, that would help a lot.
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