Help on Sorting

kenar.t · New User Joined: 13 Feb 2013 Posts: 2 Location: INDIA

Hi,

Need Help on below.

I have input file with data below. f1,f2,f3,q1,q2 are the field names that mentioned here for understanding purpose, below them actual data that each field contains.
q1 contains postive value or zeros
q2 contains negative value or zeros

Have to sort the input file based on f1,f2,f3 and the output file we should get a unique record which has a non zero value.
Could you please let us know how to do this.
I have given the input and output file conents for better understanding.

Input file:

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:43 pm

How about OMIT where q1 and q2 equal zero.

You could then do a simple SUM with FIELDS=NONE (with you data shown).

kenar.t · New User Joined: 13 Feb 2013 Posts: 2 Location: INDIA

Have forgot to include one scenario, i have one more record in the the input file as below, this should also appear in my output file

Pandora-Box · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 5:22 pm

Omit all the records with two 0 except for this ijk lmn opq 0 0

Which is OMIT q1 and q2 equal 0 and f1 not equal to ijk , f2 is not equal to lmn and f3 not equal to opq

and do SUM FIELDS=NONE

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 5:42 pm

Are all your non-zero values always guaranteed to be the same?

Have a look at ICETOOL's SELECT operator. Sort on your three key fields AND the s new key field which you make by adding together the two numeric values, and sort on that descending.

Use FIRST on ICETOOL.