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Printing Unicode chars 4 333 (12/16/2007 3:05:18 PM) comp.lang.awk Hi, GAWK's printf has a %c format: > This prints a number as an ASCII character; > thus, `printf "%c", 65' outputs the letter `A'. I am looking for a somewhat similar format that would print a Unicode charact... Hermann

Extracting values from an HTML table 8 34 (10/1/2007 5:22:26 PM) comp.lang.awk Hi All, Occasionally, I have to extract values from a long HTML table (see some sample lines below) and convert them into a more useful format. The HTML code looks like this: 1 1 ... Hermann

XMLgawk question about UNPARSED text 3 88 (9/17/2007 9:47:00 AM) comp.lang.awk Hi All, The XMLgawk documentation says: "XMLUNPARSED indicates a text that did not fit into any other category." http://home.vrweb.de/~juergen.kahrs/gawk/XML/xmlgawk.html#Sorting-out-all-kinds-of-data-from-an-... Hermann

Matrix transposition problem 13 167 (11/24/2006 5:18:59 PM) comp.lang.awk Hi All, I have 1000s of data files with 1000s of lines each. Each line has a tab-separated data series corresponding to 1 month. The field logic of the lines is as follows: (...) There are always 31 va... Hermann

HowTo convert "seconds since `00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC" into a human readable date 7 20 (4/13/2004 6:09:41 PM) comp.unix.questions Hi All, Here my small problem: I have a list with timestamps expressed as "seconds since `00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC", see here: 1081784344 1081784346 1081784347 1081784545 1081784546 1081784658 .... I would ... Hermann

KMail 1.5.3 and Priority: Low 0 23 (8/9/2003 11:00:51 AM) comp.windows.x.kde In the Menu bar, under Options, I can only find Priority = Urgent How can I flag an email with Priority = Low ? Regards, Hermann ... Hermann

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tar: Error exit delayed from previous error 3 25 (8/7/2006 4:26:32 PM) comp.unix.questions Hi, I am doing a tar -cvvf foo.tar foo/ on a Linux system, but I get the following error message tar: Error exit delayed from previous error Can anyone tell me what's (probably) going wrong, and maybe why? T... nhbfluci (87)

XML validation against XSD #2 3 30 (11/16/2007 3:37:09 PM) comp.text.xml I'm sorry if this is a basic question but I'm a beginner with XML. I have developed XSDs for XMLs that my company is producing. We now want to have a system where the XMLs that are generated by our software are... rupanjana_ms (1)

How to convert number of seconds to format "17h23m24s" ? 24 199 (6/2/2008 6:22:48 PM) comp.unix.shell Let's say I have a variable $numsec which contains a number of seconds e.g. 62345 Now I want to convert this number into a more human readable form with hours, minutes and seconds e.g. 17h23m24s How can I do ... kmlincoln100

printing XML file with XSLT code 12 8 (6/11/2008 7:10:01 PM) comp.text.xml Being a newbie with XSLT transformation code please excuse my neivte. In addition, I am not sure what I want to do can be done with xslt so I apologize up front for asking anything stupid I have a shell scrip... beefstu350 (68)

How to display "7" as left "0" padded 4 char wide field: "0007" ? 3 48 (6/17/2008 6:09:35 AM) comp.unix.shell In a shell script I want to echo out some values whcih are not necessarily as wide as they should be. For example a value of 7 should be display as a field of width 4 with left padded zeros "0": 0007 How can... garywill

concatenate file automatically 10 29 (6/24/2008 9:10:28 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Under the same directory, there are a lot of files names in this system: 3-character-prefix+anything How can I read the 2nd line of the contents and concatenate them automatically? e.g. M01ABC content: De... ela (141)

print a certain line counted from the end of an output stream 25 140 (8/15/2008 9:15:43 PM) comp.lang.awk Oftentimes I need to print, say, the 4th line from the end of an output stream. I've been using constructs of the sort cat file | tail -4 | head -1 Is there a more elegant tool / approach (sed/awk/head/tail ... Rahul

[Newbie] Output something using XSLT even if an element is missing in some documents? 6 15 (9/27/2008 5:33:25 PM) comp.text.xml Hi All, I am some information from INSPEC database records in XML to build a relational database of my own. I am currently trying to extract information by doing an XSLT transform of the XML files into a tab... wocket (11)

Convert xml to xls? 2 34 (10/21/2008 1:16:49 PM) comp.text.xml Hi all, does anyone know about an open-source tool or method that can convert a certain xml file to a spreadsheet (e.g. xls)? Can one import xml data in the OpenOffice program Calc? The problem is that the ori... Jie.Bao (10)

Data analysis of large collection of XML files 13 23 (11/23/2008 10:10:10 AM) comp.text.xml Dear all, I have a large collection of about 50 million xml files. I would like to do some basic statistic about the data. For instance, what is the average value of the tag , discover the co-occurence of some... Sengly.Heng (16)