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# 1  
Old 08-15-2014
awk programming -Passing variable to awk for loop
Hi All,


I am new to AWK programming. I have the following for loop in my awk program.

cat printhtml.awk:
Code:
     
BEGIN
-------- <some code here>
END{
----------<some code here>
   for(N=0; N<H; N++)
        {
                for(M=5; M<D[N,0]; M++) print "\t" D[N,M] "";
        }
-----
}

This "for" loop is part of a large awk program.
This program takes input a simple text file in below format:

Quote:
Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4
Row1 1 2 3 4
Row2 3 4 B ABC
Row3 DEF XYZ 6 8
Row4 Sample Sam1 Sam2 Sam3
The "for" loop prints from 5th line till end of the input file.
I am trying to create a html table using this variable D[N,M].
I want to print every word in a cell so that the final output creates a HTML Table code.
Using the below code I could convert a simple text file to html table but I am not able to put the same logic to my "for" loop.

Code:
awk 'BEGIN{print "<table> <table border=2>"} {print "<tr>";for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)print "<td>" $i"</td>";print "</tr>"} END{print "</table>"}' input_txt.txt > htmloutput.html

I have tried like this:

Code:
        for(N=0; N<H; N++)
        {
                for(M=5; M<D[N,0]; M++) print "<table> <table border=2><tr>";
                for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)
                {
                        print "<td>\t" $i"</td>";print "</tr>" D[N,M];
                }
                print "</table></td>";
        }

How do I pass the variable D[N,M] to a second loop to create a td class?
# 2  
Old 08-15-2014
If you can give us sample input and expected o/p there can be simple ways to achieve desired o/p... so please post sample input and expected o/p for the same..
# 3  
Old 08-15-2014
awk programming -Passing variable to awk for loop
Thanks for the quick reply Akshay.

Sample Input File:

Quote:

Header 1
=====
Line1
Line2
Line3
Line4

Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4
Row1 1 2 3
Row2 3 4 B
Row3 DEF XYZ 6
Row4 Sample Sam1 Sam2

Header 2
=====
Line1
Line2
Line3
Line4

Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4
Row1 1 2 3
Row2 3 4 B
Row3 DEF XYZ 6
Row4 Sample Sam1 Sam2
Using your own inputs from previous posts I could process the lines till "text table [in bold text above]". The text table is delimited by "space".
I need to process the variable "D[N,M]" which are actually table rows.
The value of D[N,M] is :
Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4,
Row1 1 2 3 ,
Row2 3 4 B,
Row3 DEF XYZ 6,
Row4 Sample Sam1 Sam2

for each iteration of the loop.

My output needs to be as below.

awk programming -Passing variable to awk for loop-capture_itjpg

Output HTML code would look like this:
Code:
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td width="319" valign="top">
                <p>
                    Header 1
                </p>
            </td>
            <td width="319" valign="top">
                <p>
                    Header 2
                </p>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td width="319" valign="top">
                <p>
                    Line1
                </p>
                <p>
                    Line2
                </p>
                <p>
                    Line3
                </p>
                <p>
                    Line4
                </p>
            </td>
            <td width="319" valign="top">
                <p>
                    Line1
                </p>
                <p>
                    Line2
                </p>
                <p>
                    Line3
                </p>
                <p>
                    Line4
                </p>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td width="319" valign="top">
                <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
                    <tbody>
                        <tr>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Column1
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Column2
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Column3
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Column4
                                </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Row1
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    1
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    2
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    3
                                </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Row2
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    3
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    4
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    B
                                </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Row3
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    DEF
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    XYZ
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    6
                                </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Row4
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Sample
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Sam1
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Sam2
                                </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </tbody>
                </table>
            </td>
            <td width="319" valign="top">
                <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
                    <tbody>
                        <tr>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Column1
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Column2
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Column3
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Column4
                                </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Row1
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    1
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    2
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    3
                                </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Row2
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    3
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    4
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    B
                                </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Row3
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    DEF
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    XYZ
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    6
                                </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Row4
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Sample
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Sam1
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td width="76" valign="top">
                                <p>
                                    Sam2
                                </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </tbody>
                </table>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

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