I have date in format YYYY-MM-DD in variable 'a'. I want to convert it in format YYYYMMDD and store in variable 'b'. The variable is in an awk variable.
How can I do the same ?
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Your variable is variable in shell script or in awk? – cuonglm Jul 7 '14 at 9:30
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it's in awk file – user3153014 Jul 7 '14 at 9:31
Use gsub:
a="YYYY-MM-DD"
b=a
gsub("-", "", b)
print(b)
will output:
YYYYMMDD
gsub replaces the first argument with the second in the third, in-place, so we copy the value of a into b first. We replace the - characters with nothing.
answered Jul 7 '14 at 9:31
