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

Adrin haswes at mindspring.com
Mon Oct 28 19:56:03 EST 2002


Now how do you account for a write in?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jonathan glass (ibb) [mailto:jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 8:13 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] sed/php/bash-script programming question
> 
> 
> 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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