Please help parsing file [sed, awk, fortran, bash]
Hello all,
I need some help fixing the format of some pretty strangely compressed data files. An example would be like this:
2883
452
0 7
1 6
2
4
6
10 7
Parsing rules:
The first two lines should be ignored.
The first column is the 'index', the second column being the 'counter'.
If there is no second number (ex. index=2), then the second number should be set to '1'.
If there the index skips (ex. from index=2 to index=4), then the indexes which where skipped should be set to '0'
Max index is 1024.
That is it. I'd like to be guided to an app (scripting language? awk? sed? I haven't used those so I really don't know where to start) that can help me do that effectively.
The command, with the script possibly as the argument, is to be included in a bash script right before a fortran program is executed as the fortran program expects the file to be uncompressed and it doesn't seem intuitive to do it from fortran. Although it would be nice for a guru to let me know how to handle it from within...
In the end, any solution would be a great help.
Thanks.
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