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August 26, 2012 17:22
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Converts stream of tabular records to stream of JSON records.
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| { | |
| if (NR == 1) { | |
| split($0, tags); | |
| if (EC == "") EC = "\""; | |
| } | |
| else { | |
| split($0, vals); | |
| jrec = "{"; | |
| for (i = 1; i <= NF; ++i) { | |
| if (vals[i] ~ /[^0-9.]/) | |
| jrec = jrec EC tags[i] EC ":" EC vals[i] EC; | |
| else | |
| jrec = jrec EC tags[i] EC ":" vals[i]; | |
| if (i < NF) | |
| jrec = jrec ", "; | |
| else | |
| jrec = jrec "},"; | |
| } | |
| print jrec; | |
| } | |
| } |
the last comma problem is corrected by adding two lines to the script, seen here:
minkymorgan / tab2json.awk
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great script,
One small bug, is it possible to remove the last comma on the last record?