select_columns

Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.09
Section: Library Commands (3)
Updated: 02 March 2009
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NAME

select_columns - select named columns from CSV stream

 

SYNOPSIS

WA2LWinTools/lib/select_columns -h

select_columns "field_separator" "column_list"

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/WinTools

 

DESCRIPTION

filter to select named columns that are separated by a field separator from stdin and print the selected columns to stdout. The first row of the data stream must contain the row header. Columns that do not exist, are printed as empty columns.

 

OPTIONS

-h
usage message.

"field_separator"
field separator.

"column_list"
separated list of columns to be printed from the CSV stream from stdin.

 

ENVIRONMENT

-

 

EXIT STATUS

0
no error.

4
usage displayed.

 

FILES

-

 

EXAMPLES

-

 

SEE ALSO

wintoolsintro(1), indent(3), print_header(3), print_index(3), print_list(3)

 

NOTES

The four commands print_header(3), print_list(3), select_columns(3) and print_index(3) provide the functionality to efficiently produce ASCII reports having an identical look.

 

BUGS

-

 

AUTHOR

select_columns was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Christian Walther

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
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