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# 8  
Old 04-15-2018
Update to rdrtx1's solution (in red) to cover the duplicate field(s) qualification.

Code:
awk '
BEGIN {lines=0; column_count=0}
$2 !~ /=/ || NF != 3 {next}
! column[$1]++ {columns[column_count++]=$1}
$1 ~ /^STAGE*$/ || $1 SUBSEP lines in column_data{lines++}
{column_data[$1, lines]=$3}
END {
   for (i=0; i<column_count; i++) if (columns[i]) printf columns[i] ((i<column_count-1) ? "|" : "\n")
   for (i=1; i <= lines; i++) {
      for (j=0; j < column_count; j++) {
         if (columns[j]) printf column_data[columns[j], i] ((j<column_count-1) ? "|" : "\n")
      }
   }
}
' infile

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# 9  
Old 04-16-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
Update to rdrtx1's solution (in red) to cover the duplicate field(s) qualification.
Excellent rdrtx1 for yout solution and Chubler_XL for the modification. With both solution it seems to work pretty nice even when in real file the strings have leading spaces.

Chubler_XL,

I see this solution has several arrays. Is there a tool to test and see what has stored each part of an awk program, the content of the arrays, etc?

Something similar to IRB(interactive Ruby) which we can test small parts of the ruby program. This in order to understand better the logic and how it works.

Thanks for help.
# 10  
Old 04-16-2018
I'm not aware of any tool like that. You could simply print out the contents of the arrays in the END block like this:

Code:
awk '
BEGIN {lines=0; column_count=0}
$2 !~ /=/ || NF != 3 {next}
! column[$1]++ {columns[column_count++]=$1}
$1 ~ /^STAGE*$/ || $1 SUBSEP lines in column_data{lines++}
{column_data[$1, lines]=$3}
END {
   for (i in column) print "column[" i "]="column[i]
   for (i in columns) print "columns[" i "]="columns[i]
   for (i in column_data) {
     k=i
     gsub(SUBSEP,",",k)
     print "column_data[" k "]="column_data[i]
   }
}
' infile


result:
Code:
column[ADDR]=5
column[ISGALW]=5
column[RRUL]=5
column[TYPE]=4
...
columns[0]=STAGE
columns[1]=ID
columns[2]=NAME
columns[3]=TYPE
columns[4]=DFRUL
columns[5]=ADDR
...
column_data[NAME,6]=PPROOA
column_data[SPRR,1]=TRUE
column_data[ID,1]=0
column_data[SPRR,3]=FALSE
column_data[ID,2]=2
column_data[SPRR,4]=FALSE
...

You can see that:
column[] is index by the column name and contains a count of the number of rows the column appears in (less 1)
columns[] is indexed by the column order and contains the column name.
column_data[] is a 2D array with index of <column name>,<row> and contains value of the data for that cell.

column[] is only used to detect the first occurrence of a column and add it to columns[]

Last edited by Chubler_XL; 04-16-2018 at 08:53 PM..
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# 11  
Old 04-17-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
I'm not aware of any tool like that. You could simply print out the contents of the arrays in the END block like this:

You can see that:
column[] is index by the column name and contains a count of the number of rows the column appears in (less 1)
columns[] is indexed by the column order and contains the column name.
column_data[] is a 2D array with index of <column name>,<row> and contains value of the data for that cell.

column[] is only used to detect the first occurrence of a column and add it to columns[]
Excellent ChublerXL. Thanks for the lesson, specially that comes from someone that knows a lot. I'll play a little bit with this example of arrays.

Thanks to all.
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