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Old 05-28-2013
Help with formatting file in C shell!
Hi Guys,
I have written a matlab script that does, thresholding of the data and creates a single column of data which i save as a text file in my home directory. Now would like to format that text file so that I all the numbers are 4 digits, if not than add 000 in front of the number if number is 1 digit or 00 if the number is 2 digit.
Code:
input.txt
1
22
300
4000
output.txt
0001
0022
0300
4000

Thank you so much in advance. I would prefer the solution in c shell!
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Old 05-28-2013
Use printf "%04d" with the value from the file.
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Old 05-28-2013
Code:
awk '{printf("%04d\n", $0)}' input.txt

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Old 05-29-2013
Thank you all for you help.
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