What operating system are you using. According to the standards, the record separator is a single character (not a string like eof, although some versions of awk do accept an extended regular expression instead of just a single character).
It is nice of you to tell us that you are getting a parsing error. But, it would be a lot more informative if you showed us the diagnostic messages awk was producing (in CODE tags) instead of just saying there is an error.
Don't transid=01 and transid=02 also indicate transactions between 0 and 12? Why isn't the desired output?:
Don't transid=01 and transid=02 also indicate transactions between 0 and 12? Why isn't the desired output?:
--> To avoid the script consedering transid=01 and transid=02,i am trying to use FS as new line and RS as eof, and then i am using "if($3=="^[0-1][0-9]")" so that awk can only check the 3rd field and in that 3rd feild pattern is "time=[0-1][0-9]". I do apologize i did not put time=[0-1][0-2] in the first place.
The output should be genarted based on values in the third feild i.e time=07.58.51, in this feild it should only consider the hour range, which is seven in this feild.
Enclosed is the snap of the same.
I did one more attempt at it but output is same:
code:
"transaction between 0 to 12" doesn't mean 0 <= transid <= 12 but the hour of the entry's time? Why, then, is entry 1 missing in your output?
in your text, you specify time=[0-1][0-2] which evaluates to 00, 01, 02, 10, 11, 12. In your script sample, you write time=[0-1][0-9] which evaluates to 00 - 19, neither of which may be what you really want.
the parser error is due to the if in the pattern part of the awk command is illegal. Either use without if, which is possible in an awk pattern {action} pair, or put it within the curly braces.
don't attach pictures - data in there can't be copied and analysed but only visually interpreted.
Your first post said absolutely nothing about time of day having any effect on the transactions that should be displayed; it said the only requirement was that the transaction ID should be between 00 and 12.
I know that many people like to write awk one-liners, instead of writing awk scripts such that you can see the structure of the code and easily spot cases where you have invalid conditions in an awk:
that would match transactions that had a time value starting with any value in the range 00 through 19, inclusive.
And, you have another logic error, because $1, $2, $3, and $4 do not have any defined value before the 1st input line has been read (and the BEGIN clause in your awk script is executed before the 1st line of input is read).
If the transaction ID doesn't matter and the only selection criteria for printing records is that the time value starts with 07, you might want something more like:
although this is untested (since the awk on my system does not support multi-character record separators) and it isn't obvious to me whether the <newline> following the eof record separator produces an empty 1st field in records after the 1st record.
Your comments gave me some hint where i was going wrong, to remove confusion of RS and to check if the "record separator produces an empty 1st field in records after the 1st record", i first changed the file to a different format.
awk '
BEGIN { FS = "\n"
OFS = ","
RS = "eof"
}
#$3 ~ "=07" { --> commented out this part since i wanted to check if the formatting is perfect or not.
{trn=$1;nm=$2;tme=$3;msg=$4; #declared it in action pattern.
print trn "," nm "," tme "," msg
}' log2
and
awk '
BEGIN {FS = "\n"
OFS = ","
RS = "eof"
}
{
print $1, $2, $3, $4
}' log2
This worked as expected but the only area of concern in this output is the commas after the last field and the last line of the output with commas, so i tried the
below code:
If i ignore variable part and execute the below code :
The only thing which was left is evaluating time frame in the third feild(Transaction which are in time frame 00 to 12) but before doing this i tried the $3 ~ 07 and it worked:
I tried different patterns but was not able to write between statement to get transaction between 00 to 12,please help me out in this.
Hi RudiC,
"transaction between 0 to 12" doesn't mean 0 <= transid <= 12 but the hour of the entry's time? Why, then, is entry 1 missing in your output?
--Yes, the first entry was missing.
in your text, you specify time=[0-1][0-2] which evaluates to 00, 01, 02, 10, 11, 12. In your script sample, you write time=[0-1][0-9] which evaluates to 00 - 19, neither of which may be what you really want.
--> This is my mistake,apologies for the same. I am looking to get transaction which falls under time frame 00-12 and the time is in the 3rd feild.
the parser error is due to the if in the pattern part of the awk command is illegal. Either use without if , which is possible in an awk pattern {action} pair, or put it within the curly braces.
--> Please give me an example so that i will understand better,i am not good in awk still learning and exploring.
I have tried achieve the output but i am stuck in matching the time range.
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