Implementing Listagg like function in shell


 
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# 15  
Old 07-01-2016
Which I thought it might be. Tough luck - | is the "alternation" char in regexes. So you have to taylor your script. Try escaping the char like "\|".
# 16  
Old 07-01-2016
Nuhuh already tried, doesn't work
# 17  
Old 07-05-2016
So, I guess there's no solution for this then...
# 18  
Old 07-05-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by prohank
So, I guess there's no solution for this then...
Of course there is and RudiC has already mentioned it to you (in post #13): use tr or any other text filter to change single characters) to change the separator to something else, then eventually reset it (if needed). Which character is safe to use will have to be decided by you after analysing your data. I suggest trying "@", which is fairly uncommon in normal text if no email addresses are mentioned, otherwise "§", "°" or the like.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
# 19  
Old 07-05-2016
Well yes I read it but as I said the default file comes with | by default and it would be preferred if that wasn't replaced with something else as the files are very huge and it is not advised to make their copies.

But may be that's the only thing possible right now. Cheers.
# 20  
Old 07-05-2016
Try
Code:
awk '
NR == 1         {KN = split (KEYCOL, KC, ",")
                 AN = split (AGGCOL, AC, ",")
                }
                {KEY = DX = ""
                 for (i=1; i<=KN; i++)  {KEY = KEY DX $KC[i]
                                         DX = OFS
                                         $KC[i] = ""
                                        }
                 for (i=1; i<=AN; i++)  {if (F[KEY,i] !~ "(^|,)" $AC[i] "(,|$)")        {F[KEY,i] = F[KEY,i] DL[KEY,i] $AC[i]
                                                                                         DL[KEY,i] = ","
                                                                                        }
                                         $AC[i] = "\001" i
                                        }
                 $0 = $0
                 LINE[KEY] = $0
                }
END             {for (l in LINE)        {for (i=1; i<=AN; i++)  sub ("\001" i, F[l,i], LINE[l])
                                         OP = sprintf ("%s%s", l, LINE[l])
                                         print OP
                                        }
                }
' KEYCOL="1" AGGCOL="2,4" FS="\|+" OFS="|" file

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# 21  
Old 07-08-2016
Thanks RudiC you have been a great help.

This version works exactly the way I wanted.
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