From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] column: make defined separator to be non-greedy
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:01:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50636D1D.3080007@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348692336-21301-1-git-send-email-kerolasa@iki.fi>
On 09/26/2012 09:45 PM, Sami Kerola wrote:
> This patch changes interpretation of subsequent delimeter interpretation.
> Earlier version merged columns that had null string as content together,
> which lead to output as visualized below.
>
> $ printf "a:b:c\n1::3\n" | column -t -s ':'
> a b c
> 1 3
>
> The number 3 has wrong column, which this patch takes care of, and alters
> the output following way.
>
> $ printf "a:b:c\n1::3\n" | column -t -s ':'
> a b c
> 1 3
>
> This patch does not alter the default case, e.g., subsequent white spaces
> are understood as separator of the same field, and the beginning of line
> white spaces are being ignored together.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola<kerolasa@iki.fi>
The new operation makes sense to me.
You can always get the previous operation
by filtering through tr -s ':' first.
cheers,
Pádraig.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-26 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-26 20:45 [PATCH] column: make defined separator to be non-greedy Sami Kerola
2012-09-26 21:01 ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2012-09-29 9:21 ` [PATCH] docs: column.1 describe change of separator behavior in bugs section Sami Kerola
2012-09-29 10:23 ` Pádraig Brady
2012-09-29 12:49 ` Sami Kerola
2012-10-02 8:45 ` Karel Zak
2012-10-02 8:29 ` [PATCH] column: make defined separator to be non-greedy Karel Zak
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