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EXAMPLE OF GAWK USE
Here is a real-life example showing the usefulness of gawk/awk:
I worked recently on a patient DB and wanted to create some dummy variables for
the hospital unit (patient category).
GAWK SCRIPT
($1 contains the input - the hospital unit)
$2 = 0 # neurosurgery vs non-neurosurgery
$3 = 0 # neurology vs non-neurology
$4 = 0 # general surgery vs non-surgery
$5 = 0 # internal maedicine vs non-im
$6 = 1 # ERROR var, if unknown abreviation
$0 = tolower($0)
# NEUROSURGERY
/nch/ {$2 = 1, $6 = 0 }
# Neurology
/^n$|^ne/ {$3 = 1, $6 =0 }
# General Surgery
/^ch/ {$4 = 1, $6 =0 }
# INTERNAL MEDICINE
/mi|end|nut/ {$5 = 1, $6 =0 }
print $0 >> 'out-file'
### END SCRIPT
- this simple script does exactly what I wanted in a very simple fashion,
AND
- it took me less than 5 minutes to write it!!!
The execution is almost instantly even on big files (~1 MB text file).
Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get this same thing done using only Calc's
functionality. (One reason is the problem with the find() function described
previously; this severe limitation of Calc hampers any serious work with
strings.)
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