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This is an old revision of CommandFixed2xml made by DavidLee on 2009-11-22 08:02:36.
Command fixed2xml
Name
fixed2xml converts a fixed field width file to an xml fileSynopsis
csv2xml [options] [fixedfile]Options
-root rootname use "rootname" as the root element name, default "root"-row rowname use "rowname" as each row's element name, default "row"
-col colname use "colname" as each column's element name (or for attribute normal format, the attribute prefix)
-colspecs specs sequence or , delimited list of column specs
-colnames names Use a sequence or "," delimited list of strings to specify the column names
-encoding encoding read csv file in encoding (default "cp1252")
-header read 1 row from the csv file and use as column names (element or attribute)
-attr Output in attribute normal format (each column is an attribute), default row normal format
-nonorm "No Normalize" ... Do NOT trim leading and trailing blanks from fields (defaults to normalize)
fixedfile Name of the fixed file to convert, otherwise stdin. Default "-" (stdin)
If -colnames is specified, its argument is taken to be either a sequence of strings, or a single string which is "," seperated which specifieds the column names to be used.
if -header is specified then the first row of the fixed file is read and the values used as column names.
-colspecs is required. Its argument is a sequence or "," deliminted string of column specs. A column spec is either "start-end" or "start", where start and end are integer column positions starting at one. For example "1-3,5-6,7-9" or <[ "1-3" , "5-6" , "7-9" ]>
If the "-end" is omitted then the remainder of the line is used.
Column specs may overlap (e.g "1-10,5-12" )
Example
Convert a file with 3 fields of widths 6,4,4 and field names First, Second, Third to xmlfixed2xml -row item -root items -colspecs 1-5,7-9,11-15 -colnames First,Second,Third <<EOF FOO BAR SPAM GOOO BAH SPA EOF
Output
<items> <item> <First>FOO</First> <Second>BAR</Second> <Third>SPAM</Third> </item> <item> <First>GOOO</First> <Second>BAH</Second> <Third>SPA</Third> </item> </items>
Return Value
Returns 0 if the conversion is successfulCategoryCommands
