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Old 03-22-2017, 05:11 PM   #1
beca123456
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awk: align values horizontally to a template record header


Hi,

my input looks like this:
Code:
PASS|A(1/2);B(3/4);C(5/6)
PASS|A(7/8);C(9/10)
FAIL|B(11/12)
I am trying to isolate the individual ";"-separated strings from $2 in identical fields based on the first letter.
example from record 1 of input above:
letter1=A
letter1_val1=1
letter1_val2=2

letter2=B
letter2_val1=3
letter2_val2=4

letter3=C
letter3_val1=5
letter3_val2=6

Output would be:
Code:
Test|A_val1|A_val2|B_val1|B_val2|C_val1|C_val2
PASS|1|2|3|4|5|6
PASS|7|8|-|-|9|10
FAIL|-|-|11|12|-|-

Note that I know in advance how the final header (here in red) will look like (i.e. here I know I have 3 different letters in $2).

So far I managed to split the different letters and their values but I am struggling to order them.

Code:
awk '
BEGIN{
   FS=OFS="|"
   
   # The output header is known in advance
   header =  "Test|A_val1|A_val2|B_val1|B_val2|C_val1|C_val2"
   a=split(header,b,"|")

   # val1 record indexes   
   for(i=2; i<=a; i+=2){
      letter_val1 = b[i]
      gsub(/_val1/,"",letter_val1)
      c[letter_val1]=i
   }

   # val2 record indexes
   for(j=3; j<= a; j+=2){
      letter_val2 = b[j]
      gsub(/_val2/,"",letter_val2)
      d[letter_val2]=j
   }

   print header
}
{
   # isolate ";"-separated string from $2 and their respective 'letter', 'val1' and 'val2'
   e=split($2,f,";")
   for(k=1; k<=e; k++){
      split(f[k],g,"[\(/\)]")

      letter=g[1]
      val1=g[2]
      val2=g[3]

   # match letter and val1 with proper record number
      if(letter in c){
         $(c[letter])=val1
      }

   # match letter and val2 with proper record number
      if(letter in d){
         $(d[letter])=val2
      }

   for(l=1; l<=NF; l++){
      if($l ~ /^$/){
         $l="-"
      }
   }

   print $0

} input > output
The code above produces this output:
Code:
Test|A_val1|A_val2|B_val1|B_val2|C_val1|C_val2
PASS|1|2|3|4|5|6
PASS|7|8|-|-|9|10
FAIL|B(11/12)|-|11|12
EDIT: Find a way to fill the blanks, but the problem now is when $2 does not begin by letter 'A' (see record 3 above).

Last edited by beca123456; 03-22-2017 at 05:55 PM.
 
Old 03-22-2017, 09:05 PM   #2
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The problem is you not validating the data. Some simple diagnostics will show your error - say print "e" and the contents of "f[]" for each of those records.
 
  


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