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how to substr a string ?
Dea PHV It worked as I would like it to be. Thank you so much !! Thank You Regards Yacob -
how to substr a string ?
Errata to the question sorry I meant cat test.dat | awk '{if($1=="Latitude") print $6 }' | awk '{ printf("%3i %2i %8.5f\n"),substr($0,1,3),substr($0,4,2),substr($0,6,5)}' it produces: 9 2 6.48000 This misses the "-" and as well as the zeros. I wanted it to produce: -09 02 06.48000... -
how to substr a string ?
Dear ALL, I want to extract a string from a file and using the substr function to extract substrings from a string. I have a file name say "test.dat" cat test.dat | awk '{if($1=="Latitude") print $6 }' this produce say "-090206.48241" the I pipe this directly to cat test.dat | awk...
