:weather script - calling SED heads ! [longish]

[William Park]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:09:18PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:32:37PM -0400, David J Patrick wrote:
> > MATCH:
> >         celsius = 18
> >         pressure = 30.06 in / 1018 hPa 
> >         temperature_celsius = 18
> >         place = Toronto
> >         windchill_celsius = 
> >         wind = 9 mph 15 km/h from the SSW 
> >         fahrenheit = 64
> >         updated = 1:00 PM EDT on September 30, 2004
> >         windchill_fahrenheit = 
> >         conditions = Clear
> >         temperature_fahrenheit = 64
> >         humidity = 59
> 
> Given above input, the desired output 
> 
>     > Toronto @ 1:00 PM EDT
>     > celsius = 18
>     > conditions = Clear
>     > humidity = 59
>     > pressure = 30.06 in / 1018 hPa 
>     > wind = 9 mph 15 km/h from the SSW 
> 
> can be obtained as follows, using standard shell:
> 
>     while read a eq b; do
> 	case $a in 
> 	    celsius|conditions|humidity|pressure|wind) echo "$a = $b" ;;
> 	    place) place=$b ;;
> 	    updated) updated=$b ;;
> 	esac
> 	echo "$place @ ${updated% on *}"
>     done < weather.sc | sort

Well, there is typo here, but I'll let you find out what it is. :-)

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Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
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