[ale] [OT] sed/php/bash-script programming question

jonathan glass (ibb) jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Sun Oct 27 20:13:28 EST 2002


Dangit!  Why do I always find the solution 2 minutes after I ask for
help.
This does the trick.

sed '$s/,//g' /tmp/vote-array-final.tmp 

Thanks anyway...

Jonathan 

On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 19:57, jonathan glass (ibb) wrote:
> In a perfect world, yep...but this is reality and the ballots are
> controlled by students, so nope.  That uniq command did the trick. Thank
> you.
> 
> One more questions for the experts here:
> 
> I have modified the script, and now it creates the MySQL tables
> correctly (thanks to Danny Cox)...but the PHP Array portion has an extra
> comma, and I cannot figure out how to strip out ONLY the last comma of a
> text file.  I've been tinkering with sed, and the man pages say to use
> "$", but I cannot get it to work!  Every time I try, I end up removing
> ALL the commas! (sed  $s/","/g /tmp/vote-array.tmp) ARGH!  Any tips? 
> Here is a sample of my output.  I output each section (GK,GH,PI,PK)
> separately, so I could, in theory, remote the trailing "," if I could
> figure out how to replace the last character on the last line.  Any
> help/thoughts/flames/ideas where in TFM to read? 
> 
> $VOTE_POST_ARRAYS = array (
> "GK" => array (
> "required_src_sec"=>"20",
> "required_gk_crc1"=>"20",
> "required_gk_crc2"=>"20",
> "required_gk_crc3"=>"20",
> "required_gk_cab"=>"20",
> "required_male_vis"=>"20",
> ),
> "GH" => array (
> "required_sga_pol"=>"20",
> "required_src_sec"=>"20",
> "required_gh_vp"=>"20",
> "required_gh_sec"=>"20",
> "required_gh_cja"=>"20",
> "required_gh_sga"=>"20",
> "required_gh_cab"=>"20",
> "required_male_vis"=>"20",
> ),
> "PK" => array (
> "required_pk_vp"=>"20",
> "required_pk_trs"=>"20",
> "required_pk_sec"=>"20",
> "required_pk_cja1"=>"20",
> "required_pk_cja2"=>"20",
> "required_pk_cja3"=>"20",
> "required_pk_cja4"=>"20",
> "required_pk_cja5"=>"20",
> "required_pk_cja6"=>"20",
> "required_pk_cja7"=>"20",
> "required_pk_sga1"=>"20",
> "required_pk_sga2"=>"20",
> "required_pk_sga3"=>"20",
> "required_pk_sga4"=>"20",
> "required_pk_sga5"=>"20",
> "required_pk_sga6"=>"20",
> "required_pk_sga7"=>"20",
> ),
> "PI" => array (
> "required_pir_sga"=>"20",
> ));
> ~
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jonathan Glass
> 
> On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 14:02, Danny Cox wrote:
> > Jonathan,
> > 
> > On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 11:07, jonathan glass (ibb) wrote:
> > > echo "CREATE TABLE GKVoteRESULTS ("
> > > grep "<input" ballot.html \
> > > | sed s/"[<|>]"//g \
> > > | sed s/"^ *input "//g \
> > > | sed s/"type=radio "//g\
> > > | sed s/"value=[a-z ]* "//g \
> > > | sed s/"name="//g \
> > > | sed s/"$"/" varchar(20) NOT NULL,"/g
> > 
> >   | uniq
> > 
> > > echo "id int(5) NOT NULL auto_increment,
> > > time timestamp(14) NOT NULL,
> > > PRIMARY KEY  (id)
> > > )"
> > 
> > 	At first blush, this ought to do it....  Can you be sure that the dups
> > will always be be together?
> > 
> > -- 
> > kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
> > medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.
> > 
> > Danny
> 
> 
> 
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