korn shell arrays

[cmeyers]

Feel up for a awk/ksh question?

I'm trying to get data into a ksh while loop using ksh arrays. This I've found is more efficient than for-item-in-list construct.

The problem is my array elements are descriptions which have spaces between the words. My descriptions are in the 2nd field of a CSV file:

CSV file:
[tt]c1,Tank Level Controller
f1,Flow Path #1
f2,Flow Path #2
h1,Header #1
h2,Header #2
m1,Motor #1
m2,Motor #2
p1,Pump #1
p2,Pump #2
t1,Tank #1
v1,Valve #1
v2,Valve #2[/tt]

The script:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

# set IFS to NEWLINE only (ignore SPACES and TABS)
IFS"
"

set -A array1 $(gawk 'BEGIN {FS=","} {print $2}' file.csv)

i=0
while (( $i<${#array1[*]} ))
 do

  print &quot;<OBJ_DESC>${array1[$i]}</OBJ_DESC>&quot;

  i=$((${i}+1))

 done

The result is:
[tt]</OBJ_DESC>ank Level Controller
</OBJ_DESC>low Path #1
</OBJ_DESC>low Path #2
</OBJ_DESC>eader #1
</OBJ_DESC>eader #2
</OBJ_DESC>otor #1
</OBJ_DESC>otor #2
</OBJ_DESC>ump #1
</OBJ_DESC>ump #2
</OBJ_DESC>ank #1
</OBJ_DESC>alve #1
</OBJ_DESC>alve #2[/tt]

I get the similar result if I use XXXXX for <OBJ_DESC> and YYYYY for </OBJ_DESC>.

For example:
[tt]YYYYYank Level Controller[/tt]

Any ideas?

CraigMan >:O>

 

[vgersh99]

IFS=&quot;
&quot;

you forgot an &quot;=&quot; sign

vlad

 

[cmeyers]

It's a typo in my post, but the script is OK.

CraigMan

 

[vgersh99]

that's the result of running of the script. Anything wrong with that? [i donn't have gawk - I'm using nawk]:

<OBJ_DESC>Tank Level Controller</OBJ_DESC>
<OBJ_DESC>Flow Path #1</OBJ_DESC>
<OBJ_DESC>Flow Path #2</OBJ_DESC>
<OBJ_DESC>Header #1</OBJ_DESC>
<OBJ_DESC>Header #2</OBJ_DESC>
<OBJ_DESC>Motor #1</OBJ_DESC>
<OBJ_DESC>Motor #2</OBJ_DESC>
<OBJ_DESC>Pump #1</OBJ_DESC>
<OBJ_DESC>Pump #2</OBJ_DESC>
<OBJ_DESC>Tank #1</OBJ_DESC>
<OBJ_DESC>Valve #1</OBJ_DESC>
<OBJ_DESC>Valve #2</OBJ_DESC>

 

[cmeyers]

I've just determined that I (CraigMan) am officially an idiot! My problem was with the CSV file. It was a DOS file. Once I ran it through dos2unix, my problem was solved.