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$2: describe the order of the different type of products separated by ":" (change from one record to another)
$3-$NF: Customer transactions.
. Each type of products are separated by ":" and are described in $1
. Numbers at the left and right of the comma are the "purchased" and "sold" items respectively
For example, the 01Jan Customer_A:
- purchased 0 meat, 21 fruits, 3 dairies
- sold 4 meat, 8 fruits, 55 dairy
But the 02Jan Customer_A:
- purchased 12 fruits, 1 meat, 432 other
- sold 0 fruit, 34 meat, 9 other
OBJECTIVE: for each date, count the number and list the name(s) of customers who sold fruits, and append the original line:
I don't get why in $2 the customer names are wrong but the figures are correct.
Probably because the NR==1 block keeps the last iteration of the loop...
Last edited by beca123456; 11-24-2016 at 06:37 PM.
I am not sure why you have the 'else' when you are trying to build the customer string as you only want to add the customer when the sold value is greater than zero.
I ended up building my own to see where we differ. Your problem is with your original for loop:
Code:
for(j=3; j<=NF; j++){
cust_j=$j
}
Here, cust_j will always end up being equal to the last customer name as it is a static value. Try making it an array
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