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Old 04-12-2014
Grep or sed to search, replace/insert chars!
HI All
Im trying to come up with an approach to finding a string, using a portion of that string to insert it on lines starting with the value "GOTO" appending to end of line after removing PT's ( See example below! )
EXAMPLE:
1. I would like to search for the line that starts with "TLAXIS/"
2. Extact from that string starting with the "," to eol (EX: ",-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236" )
3. Insert that value on every line in the same file starting with "GOTO" between last column and the "PT"
Note: PT & Numbers can be removed!
Code:
FROM:
SPINDL/1200
TLAXIS/,-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236
RAPID
FROM/.00000,.00000,1100.00000,.0000,.0000,1.0000
MODE/TRFORM,OFF
GOTO/.00000,.00000,1100.00000,-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236
RAPID
GOTO  /    -.00023,     .00017, 1060.00000                              PT     5
RAPID
GOTO  / -410.71830, -608.89040, 1060.00000                              PT     6
RAPID
GOTO  / -410.71780, -608.89070, 1017.22900                              PT     7
TO:
SPINDL/1200
TLAXIS/,-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236
RAPID
FROM/.00000,.00000,1100.00000,.0000,.0000,1.0000
MODE/TRFORM,OFF
GOTO/.00000,.00000,1100.00000,-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236
RAPID
GOTO  /    -.00023,     .00017, 1060.00000,-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236
RAPID
GOTO  / -410.71830, -608.89040, 1060.00000,-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236
RAPID
GOTO  / -410.71780, -608.89070, 1017.22900,-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236

Last edited by Franklin52; 04-12-2014 at 12:32 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 2  
Old 04-12-2014
Show us desired output for that sample data.
# 3  
Old 04-12-2014
EXAMPLE
Summery, every value from ",-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236" is inserted at end on every line that starts with "GOTO"

Code:
SPINDL/1200
TLAXIS/,-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236
RAPID
FROM/.00000,.00000,1100.00000,.0000,.0000,1.0000
MODE/TRFORM,OFF
GOTO/.00000,.00000,1100.00000,-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236
RAPID
GOTO / -.00023, .00017, 1060.00000,-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236
RAPID
GOTO / -410.71830, -608.89040, 1060.00000,-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236
RAPID
GOTO / -410.71780, -608.89070, 1017.22900,-0.0841797,-0.9622495,0.2588236

Last edited by bartus11; 04-12-2014 at 06:03 PM.. Reason: Please use [code][/code] tags.
# 4  
Old 04-12-2014
Remember, you have to give filename twice at the end of command, instead of "file"
Code:
awk -F "[, ]" 'NR == FNR {if($1 == "TLAXIS/") {sub("TLAXIS/", X); v = $0}; next} $0 ~ /^GOTO/ && $(NF - 1) == "PT" {sub(" PT.*", v)}1' file file

# 5  
Old 04-12-2014
COOL! Trying it now! Question, can this be done with sed or grep? Just trying to understand various method! Thank in Advance! -mike
# 6  
Old 04-13-2014
The previous solution does not work for my example file. Also I don't see why one should process the file twice. Here is a simple one:
Code:
awk -F "[, /]+" '($1=="TLAXIS") {$1=""; v=$0; next} ($1=="GOTO") {sub(" *PT.*", ""); $0=$0 v} {print}' OFS=", " file

---------- Post updated at 11:01 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:48 AM ----------

Because you need to store a value in the TLAXIS line, you cannot use grep.
With sed one can use its hold buffer; but compared to awk it would be harder, and the code less readable.
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 04-13-2014 at 12:54 PM..
# 7  
Old 04-13-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
With sed one can use its hold buffer; but compared to awk it would be harder, and the code less readable.
I'd like to respectfully disagree. "Hard to write" and "readable" are relative terms. For someone used to using sed your awk script is probably harder to write than a sed-script doing the same and most probably also harder to understand (=less readable). I acknowledge that for one used to awk it is probably the other way round, though.

Here is the sed script doing what you described above:

Code:
sed '/^TLAXIS\// {
               h
               s/^TLAXIS\///
               x
               s/,.*//
    }
    /^GOTO/ {
               G
               s/PT \([ ]*[0-9]*\)\(.*\)/PT\2 \1/
               s/\n//g
    }' /path/to/file

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 
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