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Need help to padding the word to create flat files

 
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HI

I would likt to create input files for testing, format is like this

INPUT Format

DISP NUM BYTES Desc
0 4 CODE
4 10 EMP NO
14 3 AGE
17 1 SEX

which will be used for creating flat files ( data in excel file).

OUTPUT file should be continous like

CODE19239625M

like this

Here CODE is the EMPCODE, 192396 is EMPNO, 25 is the AGE and M is SEX.

Can anyone will lead me to write the script ......... PLZ help
Madan Kumar T
Bangalore.
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Re: Need help to padding the word to create flat files

 
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Check out the man pages for printf.
Last edited by masijade; Dec 19th, 2007 at 8:23 am. Reason: typo
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