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Old 02-13-2016
Question 1st time awk user strings not matching right....
So I was given a file,and I want to count how many occurrences happen with a specific string. I have two, that could have up to 3 different outcomes.
Now my trouble I believe starts with this string, "news.cais.net"
but why?
as of now my output is this...
accepted rejected canceled
swrinde: 109325 5527 13418
news.cais.net: 0 0
but I cant figure out why the loop structure is not working with news.cais.net? any advice will help and thank you for taking the time to review my request.




Code:
BEGIN{ swrindePlus = 0
       swrindeMin  = 0
       can = 0
       newsPlus = 0
       newsMin  = 0
}
{
if(     $5 = "swrinde"   && $4     =  /+/ )  swrindePlus++
else if($5 = "swrinde"   && $4     = /\-/ )  swrindeMin++
else if($5 = "news.cais.net" && $4 = /\+/  ) newsPlus++
else if($5 = "news.cais.net" && $4 = /\-/  ) newsMin++
else if($5 = "swrinde"   && $4     = /\c/  ) can++


}
 END{
        print "         accepted        rejected        canceled"
#       printf"%-7s %-7s \n"  swrindePlus, swrindeMin, can 

        print "swrinde:  "   swrindePlus ,"        ",  swrindeMin, "      ", can
        print "news.cais.net:  "  newsPlus ,"           ", newsMin

}

# 2  
Old 02-13-2016
Not sure I understand your problem. Posting some representative sample always helps!

For the comparison, use the == operator, not the assignment = .
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# 3  
Old 02-13-2016
And either use string comparison:
Code:
$4 == "+"

or
a regex match:
Code:
$4 ~ /\+/

Although there do not appear to be + or - signs in the sample that you posted.
Perhaps you mean to use a numerical test ( >0 or <0 ) ?

Also, in this case the BEGIN section is superfluous and you can use the associative quality of an array instead of several variables..
# 4  
Old 02-13-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
And either use string comparison:
Code:
$4 == "+"

or
a regex match:
Code:
$4 ~ /\+/

Although there do not appear to be + or - signs in the sample that you posted.
Perhaps you mean to use a numerical test ( >0 or <0 ) ?

Also, in this case the BEGIN section is superfluous and you can use the associative quality of an array instead of several variables..
I will investigate the arrays. Thank you all for your input.
 
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