File Name based on Array - arrays

Question

I have created an array:
declare -A months=( ["JAN"]="AP01" ["FEB"]="AP02" ["MAR"]="AP03" ["APR"]="AP04" ["MAY"]="AP05" ["JUN"]="AP06" ["JUL"]="AP07" ["AUG"]="AP08" ["SEP"]="AP09" ["OCT"]="AP10" ["NOV"]="AP11" ["DEC"]="AP12")
Now I want read the replaced value of the month as it splits the file and creates new file name:
awk -F, '{print "a~ST_SAP_FILE~Actual~",echo ${months["${"$3":0:3}"]}","~RM.txt"}' ExtractOriginal.txt
The field where the variable substitution occurs is column 3. In there I have MAR-2016, what I am expecting is a file named: a~ST_SAP_FILE~Actual~MAR~RM.txt. However, I get an error:
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
What is the right syntax to take column 3, pass it to my array, return the Substitution variable and use it as the file name?

Answer 1

There's a few ways you could go about solving your problem. Which you choose is mostly contingent on how tied to awk you want to be.
Declare the array in awk:
Is there any reason for you not to declare the variable in awk?
awk -F, 'BEGIN{months["JAN"]="AP01"; months["FEB"]="AP02"; months["MAR"]="AP03"; months["APR"]="AP04"; months["MAY"]="AP05"; months["JUN"]="AP06"; months["JUL"]="AP07"; months["AUG"]="AP08"; months["SEP"]="AP09"; months["OCT"]="AP10"; months["NOV"]="AP11"; months["DEC"]="AP12"}{print "a~ST_SAP_FILE~Actual~"months[substr($3,0,3)]"~RM.txt"}' ExtractOriginal.txt
(also note that I removed the commas from print, since those will add spaces that your question seems to indicate you do not want in the result)
As #Ed Morton pointed out, due to the nature of your array, we can simplify it's creation with split/sprintf, giving you this:
awk -F, 'BEGIN{split("JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC",t," "); for (i in t) months[t[i]]=sprintf("AP%02d",i)}{print "a~ST_SAP_FILE~Actual~"months[substr($3,0,3)]"~RM.txt"}' ExtractOriginal.txt
Parse the variable into awk:
This seems closest to what you were trying to do in your attempt. This keeps the array available in bash, but handles getting the filename you want with awk. Since there is no native way to handle a bash array in awk, you have to construct the latter from the former (which is made more difficult by this being an associative array).
I did this by first changing the bash array into a more easily parsed string which I then passed into awk as a variable.
# Declare the array
declare -A months=( ["JAN"]="AP01" ["FEB"]="AP02" ["MAR"]="AP03" ["APR"]="AP04" ["MAY"]="AP05" ["JUN"]="AP06" ["JUL"]="AP07" ["AUG"]="AP08" ["SEP"]="AP09" ["OCT"]="AP10" ["NOV"]="AP11" ["DEC"]="AP12")
# Change the array into a string more easily parsed with awk
# Each element in this array is of the format MON=APON
mon=`for key in ${!months[#]}; do echo ${key}'='${months[${key}]}; done`
# See below explanation
awk -F, -v mon="$mon" 'BEGIN {split(mon,tmp," "); for(m in tmp){i = index(tmp[m], "="); months[substr(tmp[m], 1, i-1)] = substr(tmp[m], i+1)}} {print "a~ST_SAP_FILE~Actual~"months[substr($3,0,3)]"~RM.txt"}' ExtractOriginal.txt
Below is a more readable version of the awk script. Note that -v mon="$mon" passes the bash variable mon into awk as a variable also named mon:
BEGIN {
split(mon,tmp," "); # split the string mon into an array named tmp
for(m in tmp) { # for element in tmp
i = index(tmp[m], "="); # get the index of the '='
months[substr(tmp[m], 1, i-1)] = substr(tmp[m], i+1)
# split the elements of tmp at the '='
# and add them into an associative array called months
# the value is the part which follows the '='
}
}
{
print "a~ST_SAP_FILE~Actual~"months[substr($3,0,3)]"~RM.txt"
}
Skip awk entirely:
Another option is to simply not use awk at all, which removes the burden of getting the array into a workable state. It's not clear by your question if this is a potential solution for you, but personally I found this bash version much simpler to write/read/understand.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
filename="ExtractOriginal.txt"
declare -A months=( ["JAN"]="AP01" ["FEB"]="AP02" ["MAR"]="AP03" ["APR"]="AP04" ["MAY"]="AP05" ["JUN"]="AP06" ["JUL"]="AP07" ["AUG"]="AP08" ["SEP"]="AP09" ["OCT"]="AP10" ["NOV"]="AP11" ["DEC"]="AP12")
while read line; do # for line in file
month_yr=`echo $line | cut -d',' -f3` # get the third column
month=${months[${month_yr:0:3}]} # get first 3 characters
echo 'a~ST_SAP_FILE~Actual~'$month'~RM.txt'
done <"$filename"