I'm trying to create a bash script to display a word of the day. I have a dictionary file that on each line has a word and its definition.
I'd like to use date to get a unique value for each day. Like so
today=$(date '+%Y%m%d') # will return 20160616 (for today)
Now I'd like to use this value to generate a line number for me to grab from the dictionary file.
My dictionary is 86036 lines long so I need to convert $today to a value between 1 and 86036.
What is the best way to do this?
You can use remainder operator %, it will give value between 0 and the number on the right (not inclusive), so you need to add 1 to get what you want:
value=$((today % 86036 + 1))
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In painless I would like to create a script which reads a keyword field called 'objldn' and extracts only five consecutive characters sometimes present in a precise position. Infact, in the keyword field 'objldn' there are a large variety of long strings among which there are some of them with a third underscore. After the third underscore, if it is present, I can fetch the consecutive 5 chars.
Whith the following lines of code I implement what I want:
def LU = doc['objldn'].value.splitOnToken('_');
return LU[3].substring(0, 5);
But the system returnes an error message "out of bounds":
Request error: array_index_out_of_bounds_exception, Index 3 out of
bounds for length 3 in "def LU =
doc['objldn'].value.splitOnToken('_'); ..." (Painless script)
error executing runtime field or scripted field on index pattern
return LU[3].substring(0, 5);
^---- HERE
may be it is due to the fact that many strings do not have the third underscore or do not even have one and therefore I need to implement firstly a IF statement which evaluates if a third underscore is in the string and only if it is present it proceeds to execute splitOnToken()... but I am not able to do it correctly. Can you help me to add the IF statement in the script please?
Why not simply checking the length of the LU array?
def LU = doc['objldn'].value.splitOnToken('_');
return LU.length >= 4 ? LU[3].substring(0, 5) : null;
I have MATLAB set to record three webcams at the same time. I want to capture and save each feed to a file and automatically increment it the file name, it will be replaced by experiment_0001.avi, followed by experiment_0002.avi, etc.
My code looks like this at the moment
set(vid1,'LoggingMode','disk');
set(vid2,'LoggingMode','disk');
avi1 = VideoWriter('X:\ABC\Data Collection\Presentations\Correct\ExperimentA_002.AVI');
avi2 = VideoWriter('X:\ABC\Data Collection\Presentations\Correct\ExperimentB_002.AVI');
set(vid1,'DiskLogger',avi1);
set(vid2,'DiskLogger',avi2);
and I am incrementing the 002 each time.
Any thoughts on how to implement this efficiently?
Thanks.
dont forget matlab has some roots to C programming language. That means things like sprintf will work
so since you are printing out an integer value zero padded to 3 spaces you would need something like this sprintf('%03d',n) then % means there is a value to print that isn't text. 0 means zero pad on the left, 3 means pad to 3 digits, d means the number itself is an integer
just use sprintf in place of a string. the s means String print formatted. so it will output a string. here is an idea of what you might do
set(vid1,'LoggingMode','disk');
set(vid2,'LoggingMode','disk');
for (n=1:2:max_num_captures)
avi1 = VideoWriter(sprintf('X:\ABC\Data Collection\Presentations\Correct\ExperimentA_%03d.AVI',n));
avi2 = VideoWriter(sprintf('X:\ABC\Data Collection\Presentations\Correct\ExperimentB_002.AVI',n));
set(vid1,'DiskLogger',avi1);
set(vid2,'DiskLogger',avi2);
end
I have an SSIS package which loops over an array of dates. On each iteration I would like to append the current date to a string to get a full string of all the dates iterated.
What I did was to make an expression where: dateconcatvariable + ", " +currentdatevariable
However, dateconcatvariable is resetting on every iteration of the for loop and so in the end I end up with the last date iterated over instead of all the dates.
the variable is a package level variable.
Any ideas on how to get a concatenation to happen on SSIS?
Thanks!
1. Create a string variable #User::var
2. Use an Expression component and set the expression to #User::var = #User::var + (WSTR, 15)#User::yourdatevar
This should give you the general idea.
Dim str as String
str = "30 40 50 60"
I want to count the number of substrings.
Expected Output: 4
(because there are 4 total values: 30, 40, 50, 60)
How can I accomplish this in VB6?
You could try this:
arrStr = Split(str, " ")
strCnt = UBound(arrStr) + 1
msgBox strCnt
Of course, if you've got Option Explicit set (which you should..) then declare the variables above first..
Your request doesn't make any sense. A string is a sequence of text. The fact that that sequence of text contains numbers separated by spaces is quite irrelevant. Your string looks like this:
30 40 50 60
There are not 4 separate values, there is only one value, shown above—a single string.
You could also view the string as containing 11 individual characters, so it could be argued that the "count" of the string would be 11, but this doesn't get you any further towards your goal.
In order to get the result that you expect, you need to split the string into multiple strings at each space, producing 4 separate strings, each containing a 2-digit numeric value.
Of course, the real question is why you're storing this value in a string in the first place. If they're numeric values, you should store them in an array (for example, an array of Integers). Then you can easily obtain the number of elements in the array using the LBound() and UBound() functions.
I agree with everything Cody stated.
If you really wanted to you could loop through the string character by character and count the number of times you find your delimiter. In your example, it is space delimited, so you would simply count the number of spaces and add 1, but as Cody stated, those are not separate values..
Are you trying to parse text here or what? Regardless, I think what you really need to do is store your data into an array. Make your life easier, not more difficult.
Is it possible to use variables in both fields of the gsub method ?
I'm trying to get this piece of code work :
$I = 0
def random_image
$I.to_s
random = rand(1).to_s
logo = File.read('logo-standart.txt')
logo_aleatoire = logo.gsub(/#{$I}/, random)
File.open('logo-standart.txt', "w") {|file| File.puts logo_aleatoire}
$I.to_i
$I += 1
end
Thanks in advance !
filecontents = File.read('logo-standart.txt')
filecontents.gsub!(/\d+/){rand(100)}
File.open("logo-standart.txt","w"){|f| f << filecontents }
The magic line is the second line.
The gsub! function modifies the string in-place, unlike the gsub function, which would return a new string and leave the first string unmodified.
The single parameter that I passed to gsub! is the pattern to match. Here, the goal is to match any string of one or more digits -- this is the number that you're going to replace. There's no need to loop through all of the possible numbers running gsub on each one. You can even match numbers as high as a googol (or higher) without your program taking longer and longer to run.
The block that gsub! takes is evaluated each time the pattern matches to programmatically generate a replacement number. So each time, you get a different random number. This is different from the more usual form of gsub! that takes two parameters -- there the parameter is evaluated once before any pattern matching occurs, and all matches are replaced by the same string.
Note that the way this is structured, you get a new random number for each match. So if the number 307 appears twice, it turns into two different random numbers.
If you wanted to map 307 to the same random number each time, you could do the following:
filecontents = File.read('logo-standart.txt')
randomnumbers = Hash.new{|h,k| h[k]=rand(100)}
filecontents.gsub!(/\d+/){|match| randomnumbers[match]}
File.open("logo-standart.txt","w"){|f| f << filecontents }
Here, randomnumbers is a hash that lets you look up the numbers and find what random number they correspond to. The block passed when constructing the hash tells the hash what to do when it finds a number that it hasn't seen before -- in this case, generate a new random number, and remember what that random number the mapping. So gsub!'s block just asks the hash to map numbers for it, and randomnumbers takes care of generating a new random number when you encounter a new number from the original file.