> We have a process that has been working fine but on
> this file our awk print command is having trouble.
> The input file has no new line characters.
> Our commnad:
> cat <input> | awk '{printf("%-200s",$0)}' > <output>
>
> We expect the input and output to be the same but our
> output has extra spaces at the end causing our
> application to fail.
>
> If we did this:
> cat <input> | awk '{printf("%-80s",$0)} > <output>
> It would work but anything over 80 then our output is
> not the same as our input.
>
If the input data are ANSI EDI, AND this is a Win32 environment, you can
download my reformatter. That will clean up the input for you: it reformats
from any ANSI EDI to any ANSI EDI, removes extraneous data (eg spaces at the
end of segments, communications headers). (For that matter, it might totally
replace your awk script).
Go to http://www.talsystems.com, hit the "Tech Corner" tab and then download
the EDICLEAN software.
You cannot get a better value for the price. (Free.)
> Please don't ask why we do this.
Why do you think I wrote this utility? After nearly 25 years working with
ANSI EDI data, I'd seen enough different formats cause enough applications
fail because of "unexpected format" that I thought this would be handy. Not
that the applications SHOULD have failed - IMNSHO good ANSI EDI applications
should be format-agnostic - but in Real Life this is what does happen.
Michael C. Mattias
Tal Systems Inc.
Racine WI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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