Re: getting fields of FILENAME

From	pk <pk@pk.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.awk
Subject	Re: getting fields of FILENAME
Date	2011-04-13 19:48 +0100
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:48:52 -0700 (PDT) B <bryanlepore@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am looking for some ideas on how to set a variable to be one field in
> FILENAME. I'd like to do it within awk i.e. not piping to the shell. 
> 
> i.e. in a GNU toolchain the equivalent of: 
> 
> echo "one_two_three.dat" | cut -f1 -d'_'
> one
> 
> any suggestions appreciated.

split(FILENAME, array, /_/); firstpart = array[1]

or, in this case, also

firstpart = substr(FILENAME, 1, index(FILENAME, "_")-1)

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getting fields of FILENAME B <bryanlepore@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 11:48 -0700
  Re: getting fields of FILENAME pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2011-04-13 19:48 +0100
    Re: getting fields of FILENAME Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-13 23:49 +0200
  Re: getting fields of FILENAME Louis Frayser <frayser@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-13 18:33 -0700
    Re: getting fields of FILENAME Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 22:23 -0500

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