New Eyes on an awk script

[Brad De Vries]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:55:13 -0500, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:01:23AM -0800, Shawn Tayler took 69 lines to write:
> > Thanks Brad,
> >
> > Well this did change something.  The syntax error now points to the '&&" in
> > the if statements.   According to my not so great SED & AWK book from
> > O'Reilly, this is supposed to be a logical AND.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> You've got a a typo somewhere. This script:
> 
> --- cut ---
> BEGIN { FS = "," }
> {
>   ++x
>   if (NF == 9) { print x","$1","$2","$3","$4","$5","$6","$7","$8","$9",NA"
> }
>   if ((NF == 10) && ($9 == $10)) { print x","$1","$2","$3","$4","$5","$6","$7","$8","$9",NA" }
>   if ((NF == 10) && ($9 != $10)) { print x","$1","$2","$3","$4","$5","$6","$7","$8","$9","$10 }
>   if (NF == 8) { print x","$1","$2","$3","$4","$5","$6","$7","$8", , " }
> }
> 
> --- cut ---
> 
> on this data:
> 
> --- cut ---
> a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i
> a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j
> a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,i
> a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h       
> --- cut ---
> 
> produces this output:
> 
> $ awk -f x.awk < data
> 1,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,NA
> 2,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j
> 3,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,NA
> 4,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h       , ,
> 
> Kurt
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>         -- Jawaharlal Nehru

Kurt, I have to ask why you think there was a typo in the script.  It
looked like it worked to me.

Brad.