select_columns

Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
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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