Recent content by mwesticle

Jeez... So much to choose from... Thanks everyone!!!

I need a simple nawk, awk, or sed program (or anything else, really) that will count the number of pipe characters in a file. So, if my file looks like this: 222222222222222|2222|2222|222222||| |222222|222|222222222222||222| |||22222222|222222222|2|||222222222222| I need the program to return...

I have a pipe-delimited file with 24 fields. It is sorted on the 24th field. I need a program (or command, awk, nawk, whatever) that will go record-by-record, and flag every record where the 24th field is the same as the previous record AND field 19 is DIFFERENT (from the previous record)...

Hi. I have a fixed width file, that is 62 bytes wide. The first 50 bytes are irrelevant to me. Bytes 51-62 are what I'm interested in, here. Starting in position 51, there is a number that is one to 12 bytes wide. I want to alter the file, padding any non-12-byte number with zeros, to fill...

Hello, I have a question that someone here, hopefully, can answer... My project team at work is developing a java-based product that will automatically send email messages, SMS messages, and MMS messages in real-time. We are dealing with brokers to handle the sending and receiving of email...

I have a fixed-width file that contains records that are 20-bytes long, and 12 of those bytes make up an "individual id" field. the remaining 8 bytes contain "other" information. The "individual id" may or may not be unique across records. So, for example, the contents of my file might look...

I need to select certain records from a file. The records are pipe-delimited, and therefore variable-length. The last two fields on the record are the onew I am concerned with. I want to pull records where the 2nd-to-last field = 'Y', and the last field = 'N'. For example, out of these four...

Thanks for the suggestion, but this just seems to spit out File A. What I mean is, the resulting file (File C) is EXACTLY the same (byte-for-byte) as File A. I'm using this command: awk '{print;system("grep \"^"substr($0,1,12)"\" fileB")}' fileA > fileC What I'm looking for here is an output...

I have an easy to semi-difficult problem here, and I was wondering if any of the good people at Tek-Tips could help me out... Here goes: I have two files (File A and File B), each have records that are 100 bytes in length. There are 12-digit "keys" on each file, in positions 1-12. File A is...

I have a file that conatains roughly 700,000 records. I need a quick way to append two pipe characters to the end of each record. So, If input looks like this: aaa|bbb|ccc aaaa|bbbb|cccc nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Output needs to look like this: aaa|bbb|ccc|| aaaa|bbbb|cccc|| nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn||...

I need to run something ('awk', 'sed', etc.) that will let me know what the longest record in a file is. And I need it to ignore spaces. So, if I have a file with records that look like this (without the ticks): 'John Doe' 'Al Doe' 'Christopher Doe' 'Jill Doe' I want the returned result to...

Perfect! Thanks!

Very easy question here: I have a file that contains pipe-delimited data. I need to insert a header record, without overwriting any data records. So, if the input file looks like this: John Doe|123 Main St|New York|NY|10101 Jane Doe|456 Oak St|Chicago|IL|12345 I need the output file to...

It worked! Thanks again!

OK, I'm now giving it the command: nawk 'BEGIN{j=split("1 7 21 36 41",s)}{for(i=1;i<j;++i){ a=substr($0,s[i],s[i+1]-s[i]);sub(/ *$/,"",a) printf a;if(i<j-1)printf "|";else printf "\n"}}' file.dat > file.dat.dlmt I am getting pretty much the same syntax error: nawk: syntax error at source...