You can't get an exit code of -1 from a process run by the shell.
Your comments about the format of center.txt described in your comments and the format of center.txt implied by the comments in your code do not match.
The output format you said you wanted and the echo statements in your code do not match. I don't think the echo statements in the code below are correct either, but I hope they are close.
And having two nested loops reading from the same file can't work.
Perhaps the following will come closer to what you want???
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# set initial variables
# ask for the input filename from Zenity
file="$(zenity --file-selection --title="Select a Wardells Input File")"
case $? in
(0) echo "\"$file\" selected.";;
(1) echo "No file selected."
exit 1;;
(*) echo "An unexpected error has occurred."
exit 2;;
sac
IFS=","
name=${file%.*} # finds the Name part of the input filename
fileevt="$name.evt" # Output filename for event listing
outfile="$name.txt" # Output filenme
echo "the input file name to use will be $file"
echo $name
echo $outfile
mmcodes=1 # have MM codes been done? Not used in this script...
rm -f "$outfile" # Delete Output file
#**********************************************************************
#Main Program code
#**********************************************************************
#extract event numbers from line
while read A cname B athnum firstname lastname gender age REST
do echo "Name = $firstname"
echo "Surname = $lastname"
# read the Center Name and ShortName from External file. format is:
# CenterName,CenterShortName,CenterNumber
read X csname centnum < <(grep "^${cname}," centers.txt)
for event in $REST
do [ ! "$event" ] && continue
echo "D;$lastname;$firstname;;$gender;$cname;;$csname;$centnum;$age;;$event;;M;1;$athnum;;;;"
echo "D;$lastname;$firstname;;$gender;$cname;;$csname;$centnum;$age;;$event;;M;1;$athnum;;;;" >> "$outfile"
done
done < "$file" # specify the import file to work on
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[QUOTE=Don Cragun;302958814]You can't get an exit code of -1 from a process run by the shell. Ok thanks
And having two nested loops reading from the same file can't work. Ok thanks That was one of my origfinal concerns
Perhaps the following will come closer to what you want??? Very close Thank you
2 Questions.
When I run the code as you posted, the last line of each section is split into 2 if the input line has a space after the last event, it adds an extra line with no $event code in it
how does the script select only the event?
Last edited by kcpoole; 10-26-2015 at 07:53 PM..
Reason: Wrong files quoted
Without seeing the split output lines and the input line that led to that output, I don't see any obvious reason why the last line would be split.
If you change the line in the in the script:
Code:
do [ ! "$event" ] && continue
to:
Code:
do [ ! "${event%[[:space:]]" ] && continue
it will ignore any event that is just a <space> or <tab> character.
is that correct format? adding that gives an error on Line 39 @ 40 ( line 39 is the file input line)
./test: line 39: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
is that correct format? adding that gives an error on Line 39 @ 40 ( line 39 is the file input line)
./test: line 39: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
Sorry, I missed a closing brace:
Code:
do [ ! "${event%[[:space:]]}" ] && continue
I'll correct it in my earlier post.
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