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| From | Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.awk |
| Subject | Re: FIELDWIDTHS helper |
| Date | 2025-08-10 19:51 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <20250810124827.931@kylheku.com> (permalink) |
| References | <b208cecc-acca-4a4b-bce8-013c66682fcc@scorecrow.com> <107arnd$23gng$1@dont-email.me> |
On 2025-08-10, Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/6/2025 4:23 AM, Bruce wrote:
>> The other day I found myself unable to count field sizes accurately so I
>> wrote this little helper.
>>
>> NR == 1 { # Pick a line
>> print
>> nf = split(FIELDWIDTHS, fw)
>> for (i = 1; i <= nf; i++)
>> for (j = 1; j <= fw[i]; j++)
>> printf "%d", (i % 10)
>> print ""
>> }
>
> FWIW you could do that without nested loops and without using
> FIELDWIDTHS so it'll work in any POSIX awk, not just gawk:
But I suspect that the program is intended to be a helper
when developing a program that uses FIELDWIDTHS.
Your portable example is no longer testing/displaying what the value of
FIELDWIDTHS is doing against the input data.
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