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in thread Data munging


Thanks much ikegami. The first two options are awesome, I am still trying to wrap my brain around the third!

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Re^3: Data munging
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 22, 2010 at 01:01 UTC
    It counts lines and maintains a sum of the values seen to date. When the key changes, it prints the average, then resets the line count and the sum.
    1 196 -> count = 1 sum = 196 1 190 -> count = 2 sum = 196+190 1 200 -> count = 3 sum = 196+190+200 key changed, so print average, and reset count and sum 2 20 -> count = 1 sum = 20 key changed, so print average, and reset count and sum 3 25 -> count = 1 sum = 25 3 19 -> count = 2 sum = 25+19 3 39 -> count = 3 sum = 25+19+39 key changed, so print average, and reset count and sum 4 40 -> count = 1 sum = 40 4 41 -> count = 2 sum = 40+41 4 45 -> count = 3 sum = 40+41+45 eof, so print average