The shell script

(See Tuesday's tip, Coding data cleansing in AWK, for context):





 #!/bin/ksh #########################################################################

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 Data File : data.dat. ** Data Scrubber : chg.awk ** Parameter File : param.dat

 ##########################################################################

 echo "Starting....'date '+%T''..." echo while read -r col from to do echo "doing for $col $from $to ....'date '+%T''" echo grep "$from" data.dat

 >|temp_with grep -v "$from" data.dat >temp_without awk -f chg.awk COL=$col FROM=$from TO=$to temp_with

 >|temp_with_clear cat temp_with_clear temp_without >|

 data.dat echo "Ending $col $from $to ....'date '+%T''" echo done<

 param.dat echo "ending....'date '+%T''..." /usr/bin/rm temp_with temp_without temp_with_clear The AWK Script [chg.awk]: BEGIN { FS="t" } { if ( $COL== FROM ) { for (i=1; i<

 =NF; i++) { if ( i==COL ) { printf("%s",TO) if ( COL != NF ) { printf("t") } else { printf("n") } } else { printf("%s",$i); if ( i!=NF) { printf("t") } else { printf("n") } } } } else { print $0 } }

 The parameter file: 3 i.b.m. IBM 2 profs. Prof. 1 professor Prof. 4 ibm IBM

 [Each line indicates the transformation.

 For example, the first line indicates that if 'i.b.m' is present anywhere in the file at column 3, it should be transformed into 'IBM']

This was first published in April 2002

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