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switching and moving characters around
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| Gary Hartl 2004-03-19, 8:23 pm |
| Hi all;
I'm a total awk noob but i think awk is the right tool for what i need
to do.
I have lines of semi jumbled data ( there is a definite pattern to it,
so this is why i figured awk might be good) that we need to move
around a bit...
ie:
der@@f needs to read fred
reta@@w needs to read water
etc.
I have zero clue how to start off with this.
any help would be appreciated, or if awk is the wrong tool maybe can
someone suggest the correct tool
Cheers,
Gary
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| Robert Katz 2004-03-19, 8:23 pm |
| Gary Hartl wrote:
> Hi all;
>
[ . . .]
>
> I have lines of semi jumbled data [ . . . ] that we need to move
> around a bit...
>
> ie:
> der@@f needs to read fred
> reta@@w needs to read water
>
> etc.
>
[ . . . ]
{
for (i = split($0, A, ""); i > 0; i--)
if (A[i] != "@") printf A[i]
print ""
}
--
Regards,
---Robert
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| William Park 2004-03-19, 8:23 pm |
| Gary Hartl <the-smtpguy@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> I'm a total awk noob but i think awk is the right tool for what i need
> to do.
>
> I have lines of semi jumbled data ( there is a definite pattern to it,
> so this is why i figured awk might be good) that we need to move
> around a bit...
>
> ie:
> der@@f needs to read fred
> reta@@w needs to read water
>
> etc.
>
> I have zero clue how to start off with this.
>
> any help would be appreciated, or if awk is the wrong tool maybe can
> someone suggest the correct tool
man tr
man rev
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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Linux solution for data management and processing.
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