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Sir. Hedgehog
Sir. Hedgehog

Reputation: 1290

How to reverse a string in ksh

please help me with this problem, i have an array witch includes 1000 lines with number which are treated as strings and i want for all of them to reverse them one by one, my problem is how to reverse them because i have to use ksh or else with bash or something it would be so easy..... what i have now is this, but rev="$rev${copy:$y:1}" doesnt work in ksh. 

i=0
while [[ $i -lt 999 ]]
do  
    rev=""
    var=${xnumbers[$i]}
    copy=${var}
    len=${#copy}
    y=$(expr $len - 1)
    while [[ $y -ge 0 ]]
    do  
        rev="$rev${copy:$y:1}"
        echo "y = " $y
        y=$(expr $y - 1)
    done

    echo "i = " $i
    echo "rev = " $rev
    #xnumbers[$i]=$(expr $xnumbers[$i] "|" $rev)
    echo "xum = " ${xnumbers[$i]}
    echo "##############################################"
    i=$(expr $i + 1)
done

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1882

Answers (3)

user4401178
user4401178

Reputation:

You could use cut, paste and rev together, just change printf to cat file.txt:

paste -d' ' <(printf "%s data\n" {1..100} | cut -d' ' -f1) <(printf "%s data\n" {1..100} | cut -d' ' -f2 |rev)

Or rev alone if, it's not a numbered file as clarified by the OP.

Upvotes: 1

The Roy
The Roy

Reputation: 2208

I am not sure why we cannot use built in rev function.

$ echo 798|rev
897

You can also try:

$ echo 798 | awk '{ for(i=length;i!=0;i--)x=x substr($0,i,1);}END{print x}'
897

Upvotes: 2

Firefly
Firefly

Reputation: 459

If, you can print the contents of the array to a file, you can then process the file with this awk oneliner.

awk '{s1=split($0,A,""); line=""; for (i=s1;i>0;i--) line=line A[i];print line}' file

Check this!!

other_var=`echo ${xnumbers[$i]} | awk '{s1=split($0,A,""); line=""; for (i=s1;i>0;i--) line=line A[i];print line}'`

I have tested this on Ubuntu with ksh, same results:

number="789"
other_var=`echo $number | awk '{s1=split($0,A,""); line=""; for (i=s1;i>0;i--) line=line A[i];print line}'`
echo $other_var
987

Upvotes: 1

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