I was searching through SO and google for a solution to my problem for 2 days but I had no luck. My problem is that I have an array and I initiate its elements with 0's, and I modify its elements' values inside forwhile loop scope. But when I print the array's values outside the loop, I find it all 0's as their initial values!!
Here is my code:
#!/bin/bash
#
# This is a script to reformat CSV files into pretty-formatted txt files.
clear
echo 'This is a script to reformat CSV files into pretty-formatted txt files.'
echo
# Get number of elements.
elements=$(cat CSV_File | sed -n 1'p' | tr ',' '
' | wc -l)
# "cat CSV_File" for getting text of the file.
# "sed -n 1'p'" for getting only first line.
# "tr ',' '
'" for replacing ',' with '
'.
# "wc -l" for getting number of lines (i.e number of elements).
# Get number of lines.
lines=$(cat CSV_File | wc -l)
# "cat CSV_File" for getting text of the file.
# "wc -l" for getting number of lines.
# Initiate an array for elements' lengths.
for ((i=1; $i < (( $elements + 1 )) ;i++))
do lengths[$i]="0"
done
# Find tallest element of each column and put the values into 'lengths' array.
for ((i=1; $i <= $lines ;i++))
do
j="1"
cat CSV_File | sed -n ${i}'p' | tr ',' '
' | while read element
do
if [ ${lengths[$j]} -le ${#element} ]
then lengths[$j]=${#element}
fi
(( j++ ))
done
done
echo ${lengths[1]} # It should print 5 not 0
echo ${lengths[2]} # It should print 4 not 0
echo ${lengths[3]} # It should print 19 not 0
echo ${lengths[4]} # It should print 11 not 0
echo ${lengths[5]} # It should print 2 not 0
echo ${lengths[6]} # It should print 5 not 0
echo ${lengths[7]} # It should print 14 not 0
echo
...
and here is CSV_File contents:
Jones,Bill,235 S. Williams St.,Denver,CO,80221,(303) 244-7989
Smith,Tom,404 Polk Ave.,Los Angeles,CA,90003,(213) 879-5612
Note that when I put echo
inside the if statement, it prints the correct value:
if [ ${lengths[$j]} -le ${#element} ]
then lengths[$j]=${#element}
echo ${lengths[$j]}
fi
What is wrong I'm doing? Am I missing something?
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