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How do I parse a numeric string with awk?
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Earl Frederick
Greenhorn
Joined: Feb 08, 2012
Posts: 1
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I have a string in a data file 120134752 i'd like to separate this string into 3 pieces HHMMSSSSS and print that into
a new file as 3 separated strings as HH MM SSSSS (using a space as separator. I can't find any tips in books or online).
the full record in the file looks like this 3828100291 67037746 309500213 100950 120134752
thanks for any help!
earlb
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Tim Holloway
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Joined: Jun 25, 2001
Posts: 12513
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Welcome to the Ranch, Earl!
I'm out of practice, but awk is based on regex processing, so the easiest way to break a string like HHMMSSSS into components would be to use groupings, like so:
[code]
(\d\d)(\d\d)(\dddd)
[code]
Which would then be mapped to individual variables ($1, $2, $3). Actually, I think that you can map them to named variables, but like I said, I'm really out of practice with AWK.
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