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&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Overview">Overview</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Syntax">Syntax</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Expression_formatting">Expression formatting</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Expressions_from_files">Expressions from files</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Semicolons,_commas,_newlines,_and_curly_braces">Semicolons, commas, newlines, and curly braces</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Variables">Variables</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Built-in_variables">Built-in variables</a><br/>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Positional_field_names">Positional field names</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Out-of-stream_variables">Out-of-stream variables</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Indexed_out-of-stream_variables">Indexed out-of-stream variables</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Local_variables">Local variables</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Map_literals">Map literals</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Type-checking">Type-checking</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Type-test_and_type-assertion_expressions">Type-test and type-assertion expressions</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Type-declarations_for_local_variables,_function_parameter,_and_function_return_values">Type-declarations for local variables, function parameter, and function return values</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Null_data:_empty_and_absent">Null data: empty and absent</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Aggregate_variable_assignments">Aggregate variable assignments</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Keywords_for_filter_and_put">Keywords for filter and put</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Operator_precedence">Operator precedence</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Operator_and_function_semantics">Operator and function semantics</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Control_structures">Control structures</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Pattern-action_blocks">Pattern-action blocks</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#If-statements">If-statements</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#While_and_do-while_loops">While and do-while loops</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#For-loops">For-loops</a><br/>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Key-value_for-loops">Key-value for-loops</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#C-style_triple-for_loops">C-style triple-for loops</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Begin/end_blocks">Begin/end blocks</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Output_statements">Output statements</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Print_statements">Print statements</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Dump_statements">Dump statements</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Tee_statements">Tee statements</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Redirected-output_statements">Redirected-output statements</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Emit_statements">Emit statements</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Multi-emit_statements">Multi-emit statements</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Emit-all_statements">Emit-all statements</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Unset_statements">Unset statements</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Filter_statements">Filter statements</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Built-in_functions_for_filter_and_put,_summary">Built-in functions for filter and put, summary</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Built-in_functions_for_filter_and_put">Built-in functions for filter and put</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#User-defined_functions_and_subroutines">User-defined functions and subroutines</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#User-defined_functions">User-defined functions</a><br/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#User-defined_subroutines">User-defined subroutines</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#Errors_and_transparency">Errors and transparency</a><br/>
&bull;&nbsp;<a href="#A_note_on_the_complexity_of_Miller&rsquo;s_expression_language">A note on the complexity of Miller&rsquo;s expression language</a><br/>
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<p/> Here&rsquo;s comparison of verbs and <code>put</code>/<code>filter</code> DSL expressions:
<table border=1>
<tr> <td>
Example:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr stats1 -a sum -f x -g a data/small
a=pan,x_sum=0.346790
a=eks,x_sum=1.140079
a=wye,x_sum=0.777892
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<p/>
<p/>
<ul>
<li/> Verbs are coded in C
<li/> They run a bit faster
<li/> They take fewer keystrokes
<li/> There is less to learn
<li/> Their customization is limited to each verb&rsquo;s options
</ul>
</td>
<td>
Example:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@x_sum[$a] += $x; end{emit @x_sum, "a"}' data/small
a=pan,x_sum=0.346790
a=eks,x_sum=1.140079
a=wye,x_sum=0.777892
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<p/>
<ul>
<li/> You get to write your own DSL expressions
<li/> They run a bit slower
<li/> They take more keystrokes
<li/> There is more to learn
<li/> They are highly customizable
</ul>
</td> </tr>
</table>
<p/>Please see <a href="reference-verbs.html">here</a> for information on
verbs other than <code>put</code> and <code>filter</code>.
<p/>
The essential usages of <code>mlr filter</code> and <code>mlr put</code> are for
record-selection and record-updating expressions, respectively. For example, given the following input data:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ cat data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
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<p/>
<p/> you might retain only the records whose <code>a</code> field has value <code>eks</code>:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr filter '$a == "eks"' data/small
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
</pre>
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<p/>
<p/> or you might add a new field which is a function of existing fields:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$ab = $a . "_" . $b ' data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533,ab=pan_pan
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797,ab=eks_pan
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776,ab=wye_wye
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463,ab=eks_wye
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729,ab=wye_pan
</pre>
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<p/>
<p/>The two verbs <code>mlr filter</code> and <code>mlr put</code> are essentially the
same. The only differences are:
<ul>
<li/> Expressions sent to <code>mlr filter</code> must end with a boolean expression,
which is the filtering criterion;
<li/> <code>mlr filter</code> expressions may not
reference the <code>filter</code> keyword within them; and
<li/> <code>mlr filter</code> expressions may not use <code>tee</code>, <code>emit</code>,
<code>emitp</code>, or <code>emitf</code>.
</ul>
<p/> All the rest is the same: in particular, you can define and invoke
functions and subroutines to help produce the final boolean statement, and
record fields may be assigned to in the statements preceding the final boolean
statement.
<p/>There are more details and more choices, of course, as detailed in the following sections.
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<a id="Expression_formatting"/><h2>Expression formatting</h2>
<p/>Multiple expressions may be given, separated by semicolons, and each may refer to the ones before:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ ruby -e '10.times{|i|puts "i=#{i}"}' | mlr --opprint put '$j = $i + 1; $k = $i +$j'
i j k
0 1 1
1 2 3
2 3 5
3 4 7
4 5 9
5 6 11
6 7 13
7 8 15
8 9 17
9 10 19
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
Newlines within the expression are ignored, which can help increase legibility of complex expressions:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --opprint put '
$nf = NF;
$nr = NR;
$fnr = FNR;
$filenum = FILENUM;
$filename = FILENAME
' data/small data/small2
a b i x y nf nr fnr filenum filename
pan pan 1 0.3467901443380824 0.7268028627434533 5 1 1 1 data/small
eks pan 2 0.7586799647899636 0.5221511083334797 5 2 2 1 data/small
wye wye 3 0.20460330576630303 0.33831852551664776 5 3 3 1 data/small
eks wye 4 0.38139939387114097 0.13418874328430463 5 4 4 1 data/small
wye pan 5 0.5732889198020006 0.8636244699032729 5 5 5 1 data/small
pan eks 9999 0.267481232652199086 0.557077185510228001 5 6 1 2 data/small2
wye eks 10000 0.734806020620654365 0.884788571337605134 5 7 2 2 data/small2
pan wye 10001 0.870530722602517626 0.009854780514656930 5 8 3 2 data/small2
hat wye 10002 0.321507044286237609 0.568893318795083758 5 9 4 2 data/small2
pan zee 10003 0.272054845593895200 0.425789896597056627 5 10 5 2 data/small2
</pre>
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<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --opprint filter '($x &gt; 0.5 &amp;&amp; $y &lt; 0.5) || ($x &lt; 0.5 &amp;&amp; $y &gt; 0.5)' then stats2 -a corr -f x,y data/medium
x_y_corr
-0.747994
</pre>
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<a id="Expressions_from_files"/><h2>Expressions from files</h2>
<p/>The simplest way to enter expressions for <code>put</code> and <code>filter</code> is between single quotes on the command line, e.g.
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small put '$xy = sqrt($x**2 + $y**2)'
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533,xy=0.805299
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797,xy=0.920998
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776,xy=0.395376
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463,xy=0.404317
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729,xy=1.036584
</pre>
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<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small put 'func f(a, b) { return sqrt(a**2 + b**2) } $xy = f($x, $y)'
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533,xy=0.805299
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797,xy=0.920998
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776,xy=0.395376
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463,xy=0.404317
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729,xy=1.036584
</pre>
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<p/>
<p/>You may, though, find it convenient to put expressions into files for reuse, and read them
<b>using the -f option</b>. For example:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ cat data/fe-example-3.mlr
func f(a, b) {
return sqrt(a**2 + b**2)
}
$xy = f($x, $y)
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small put -f data/fe-example-3.mlr
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533,xy=0.805299
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797,xy=0.920998
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776,xy=0.395376
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463,xy=0.404317
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729,xy=1.036584
</pre>
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<p/>
<p/>If you have some of the logic in a file and you want to write the rest on the command line, you
can <b>use the -f and -e options together</b>:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ cat data/fe-example-4.mlr
func f(a, b) {
return sqrt(a**2 + b**2)
}
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small put -f data/fe-example-4.mlr -e '$xy = f($x, $y)'
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533,xy=0.805299
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797,xy=0.920998
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776,xy=0.395376
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463,xy=0.404317
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729,xy=1.036584
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>A suggested use-case here is defining functions in files, and calling them from command-line expressions.
<p/>Another suggested use-case is putting default parameter values in files, e.g. using
<code>begin{@count=is_present(@count)?@count:10}</code> in the file, where you can precede that using
<code>begin{@count=40}</code> using <code>-e</code>.
<p/>Moreover, you can have one or more <code>-f</code> expressions (maybe one
function per file, for example) and one or more <code>-e</code> expressions on the
command line. If you mix <code>-f</code> and <code>-e</code> then the expressions are
evaluated in the order encountered. (Since the expressions are all simply
concatenated together in order, don&rsquo;t forget intervening semicolons: e.g.
not <code>mlr put -e '$x=1' -e '$y=2 ...'</code> but rather <code>mlr put -e '$x=1;' -e
'$y=2' ...</code>.)
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<a id="Semicolons,_commas,_newlines,_and_curly_braces"/><h2>Semicolons, commas, newlines, and curly braces</h2>
<p/>Miller uses <b>semicolons as statement separators</b>, not statement terminators. This means you can write:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mlr put 'x=1'
mlr put 'x=1;$y=2'
mlr put 'x=1;$y=2;'
mlr put 'x=1;;;;$y=2;'
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Semicolons are optional after closing curly braces (which close conditionals and loops as discussed below).
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ echo x=1,y=2 | mlr put 'while (NF &lt; 10) { $[NF+1] = ""} $foo = "bar"'
x=1,y=2,3=,4=,5=,6=,7=,8=,9=,10=,foo=bar
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ echo x=1,y=2 | mlr put 'while (NF &lt; 10) { $[NF+1] = ""}; $foo = "bar"'
x=1,y=2,3=,4=,5=,6=,7=,8=,9=,10=,foo=bar
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Semicolons are required between statements even if those statements are on
separate lines. <b>Newlines</b> are for your convenience but have no syntactic
meaning: line endings do not terminate statements. For example, adjacent
assignment statements must be separated by semicolons even if those statements
are on separate lines:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mlr put '
$x = 1
$y = 2 # Syntax error
'
mlr put '
$x = 1;
$y = 2 # This is OK
'
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/><b>Trailing commas</b> are allowed in function/subroutine definitions,
function/subroutine callsites, and map literals. This is intended for (although
not restricted to) the multi-line case:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --csvlite --from data/a.csv put '
func f(
num a,
num b,
): num {
return a**2 + b**2;
}
$* = {
"s": $a + $b,
"t": $a - $b,
"u": f(
$a,
$b,
),
"v": NR,
}
'
s,t,u,v
3,-1,5.000000,1
9,-1,41.000000,2
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Bodies for all compound statements must be enclosed in <b>curly braces</b>, even if the body is a single statement:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mlr put 'if ($x == 1) $y = 2' # Syntax error
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mlr put 'if ($x == 1) { $y = 2 }' # This is OK
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Bodies for compound statements may be empty:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mlr put 'if ($x == 1) { }' # This no-op is syntactically acceptable
</pre>
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<a id="Variables"/><h1>Variables</h1>
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<p/>Miller has the following kinds of variables:
<p/> <b>Built-in variables</b> such as <code>NF</code>, <code>NF</code>,
<code>FILENAME</code>, <code>M_PI</code>, and <code>M_E</code>. These are all capital letters
and are read-only (although some of them change value from one record to
another).
<p/> <b>Fields of stream records</b>, accessed using the <code>$</code> prefix.
These refer to fields of the current data-stream record. For example, in
<code>echo x=1,y=2 | mlr put '$z = $x + $y'</code>, <code>$x</code> and <code>$y</code>
refer to input fields, and <code>$z</code> refers to a new, computed output field.
In a few contexts, presented below, you can refer to the entire record as
<code>$*</code>.
<p/> <b>Out-of-stream variables</b> accessed using the <code>@</code> prefix. These
refer to data which persist from one record to the next, including in
<code>begin</code> and <code>end</code> blocks (which execute before/after the record
stream is consumed, respectively). You use them to remember values across
records, such as sums, differences, counters, and so on. In a few contexts,
presented below, you can refer to the entire out-of-stream-variables collection
as <code>@*</code>.
<p/> <b>Local variables</b> are limited in scope and extent to the current
statements being executed: these include function arguments, bound variables in
for loops, and explicitly declared local variables.
<p/> <b>Keywords</b> are not variables, but since their names are reserved, you
cannot use these names for local variables.
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Built-in_variables"/><h2>Built-in variables</h2>
<p/> These are written all in capital letters, such as <code>NR</code>,
<code>NF</code>, <code>FILENAME</code>, and only a small, specific set of them is
defined by Miller.
<p/>Namely, Miller supports the following five built-in variables for <a
href="reference-verbs.html#filter"><code>filter</code></a> and <code>put</code>, all <code>awk</code>-inspired:
<code>NF</code>, <code>NR</code>, <code>FNR</code>, <code>FILENUM</code>, and
<code>FILENAME</code>, as well as the mathematical constants <code>M_PI</code> and
<code>M_E</code>. Lastly, the <code>ENV</code> hashmap allows read access to environment
variables, e.g. <code>ENV["HOME"]</code> or <code>ENV["foo_".$hostname]</code>.
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr filter 'FNR == 2' data/small*
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
1=pan,2=pan,3=1,4=0.3467901443380824,5=0.7268028627434533
a=wye,b=eks,i=10000,x=0.734806020620654365,y=0.884788571337605134
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$fnr = FNR' data/small*
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533,fnr=1
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797,fnr=2
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776,fnr=3
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463,fnr=4
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729,fnr=5
1=a,2=b,3=i,4=x,5=y,fnr=1
1=pan,2=pan,3=1,4=0.3467901443380824,5=0.7268028627434533,fnr=2
1=eks,2=pan,3=2,4=0.7586799647899636,5=0.5221511083334797,fnr=3
1=wye,2=wye,3=3,4=0.20460330576630303,5=0.33831852551664776,fnr=4
1=eks,2=wye,3=4,4=0.38139939387114097,5=0.13418874328430463,fnr=5
1=wye,2=pan,3=5,4=0.5732889198020006,5=0.8636244699032729,fnr=6
a=pan,b=eks,i=9999,x=0.267481232652199086,y=0.557077185510228001,fnr=1
a=wye,b=eks,i=10000,x=0.734806020620654365,y=0.884788571337605134,fnr=2
a=pan,b=wye,i=10001,x=0.870530722602517626,y=0.009854780514656930,fnr=3
a=hat,b=wye,i=10002,x=0.321507044286237609,y=0.568893318795083758,fnr=4
a=pan,b=zee,i=10003,x=0.272054845593895200,y=0.425789896597056627,fnr=5
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/> Their values of <code>NF</code>, <code>NR</code>, <code>FNR</code>, <code>FILENUM</code>,
and <code>FILENAME</code> change from one record to the next as Miller scans
through your input data stream. The mathematical constants, of course, do not
change; <code>ENV</code> is populated from the system environment variables at the
time Miller starts and is read-only for the remainder of program execution.
<p/> Their <b>scope is global</b>: you can refer to them in any <code>filter</code>
or <code>put</code> statement. Their values are assigned by the input-record
reader:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --csv put '$nr = NR' data/a.csv
a,b,c,nr
1,2,3,1
4,5,6,2
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --csv repeat -n 3 then put '$nr = NR' data/a.csv
a,b,c,nr
1,2,3,1
1,2,3,1
1,2,3,1
4,5,6,2
4,5,6,2
4,5,6,2
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/> The <b>extent</b> is for the duration of the put/filter: in a
<code>begin</code> statement (which executes before the first input record is
consumed) you will find <code>NR=1</code> and in an <code>end</code> statement (which
is executed after the last input record is consumed) you will find <code>NR</code>
to be the total number of records ingested.
<p/> These are all <b>read-only</b> for the <code>mlr put</code> and <code>mlr
filter</code> DSLs: they may be assigned from, e.g. <code>$nr=NR</code>, but they may
not be assigned to: <code>NR=100</code> is a syntax error.
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Field_names"/><h2>Field names</h2>
<p/>Names of fields within stream records must be specified using a <code>$</code>
in <code>filter</code> and <a href="reference-verbs.html#put"><code>put</code></a>
expressions, even though the dollar signs don&rsquo;t appear in the data stream
itself. For integer-indexed data, this looks like <code>awk</code>&rsquo;s
<code>$1,$2,$3</code>, except that Miller allows non-numeric names such as
<code>$quantity</code> or <code>$hostname</code>. Likewise, enclose string literals
in double quotes in <code>filter</code> expressions even though they don&rsquo;t
appear in file data. In particular, <code>mlr filter '$x=="abc"'</code> passes
through the record <code>x=abc</code>.
<p/>If field names have <b>special characters</b> such as <code>.</code> then you
can use braces, e.g. <code>'${field.name}'</code>.
<p/>You may also use a <b>computed field name</b> in square brackets, e.g.
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ echo a=3,b=4 | mlr filter '$["x"] &lt; 0.5'
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ echo s=green,t=blue,a=3,b=4 | mlr put '$[$s."_".$t] = $a * $b'
s=green,t=blue,a=3,b=4,green_blue=12
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
Notes:
<p/> The names of record fields depend on the contents of your input data stream, and their
values change from one record to the next as Miller scans through your input
data stream.
<p/> Their <b>extent</b> is limited to the current record; their <b>scope</b>
is the <code>filter</code> or <code>put</code> command in which they appear.
<p/> These are <b>read-write</b>: you can do <code>$y=2*$x</code>,
<code>$x=$x+1</code>, etc.
<p/> Records are Miller&rsquo;s output: field names present in the input
stream are passed through to output (written to standard output) unless fields
are removed with <code>cut</code>, or records are excluded with <code>filter</code> or
<code>put -q</code>, etc. Simply assign a value to a field and it will be output.
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Positional_field_names"/><h2>Positional field names</h2>
<p/> Even though Miller&rsquo;s main selling point is
name-indexing, sometimes you really want to refer to a field name by its
positional index (starting from 1).
<p/> Use <code>$[[3]]</code> to access the name of field 3. More generally, any
expression evaluating to an integer can go between <code>$[[</code> and
<code>]]</code>.
Then using a computed field name, <code>$[ $[[3]] ]</code> is the value in the third field.
This has the shorter equivalent notation <code>$[[[3]]]</code>.
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr cat data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$[[3]] = "NEW"' data/small
a=pan,b=pan,NEW=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=pan,NEW=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,NEW=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,NEW=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,NEW=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$[[[3]]] = "NEW"' data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=NEW,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=pan,i=NEW,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=NEW,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,i=NEW,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,i=NEW,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$NEW = $[[NR]]' data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533,NEW=a
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797,NEW=b
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776,NEW=i
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463,NEW=x
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729,NEW=y
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$NEW = $[[[NR]]]' data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533,NEW=pan
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797,NEW=pan
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776,NEW=3
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463,NEW=0.381399
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729,NEW=0.863624
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$[[[NR]]] = "NEW"' data/small
a=NEW,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=NEW,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=NEW,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=NEW,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=NEW
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
Right-hand side accesses to non-existent fields &mdash; i.e. with index less
than 1 or greater than <code>NF</code> -- return an absent value. Likewise,
left-hand side accesses only refer to fields which already exist. For example,
if a field has 5 records then assigning the name or value of the 6th (or 600th)
field results in a no-op.
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$[[6]] = "NEW"' data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$[[[6]]] = "NEW"' data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Out-of-stream_variables"/><h2>Out-of-stream variables</h2>
<p/> These are prefixed with an at-sign, e.g. <code>@sum</code>. Furthermore,
unlike built-in variables and stream-record fields, they are maintained in an
arbitrarily nested hashmap: you can do <code>@sum += $quanity</code>, or
<code>@sum[$color] += $quanity</code>, or <code>@sum[$color][$shape] +=
$quanity</code>. The keys for the multi-level hashmap can be any expression which
evaluates to string or integer: e.g. <code>@sum[NR] = $a + $b</code>,
<code>@sum[$a."-".$b] = $x</code>, etc.
<p/> Their names and their values are entirely under your control; they change
only when you assign to them.
<p/> Just as for field names in stream records, if you want to define out-of-stream variables
with <b>special characters</b> such as <code>.</code> then you can use braces, e.g. <code>'@{variable.name}["index"]'</code>.
<p/>You may use a <b>computed key </b> in square brackets, e.g.
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ echo s=green,t=blue,a=3,b=4 | mlr put -q '@[$s."_".$t] = $a * $b; emit all'
green_blue=12
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/> Out-of-stream variables are <b>scoped</b> to the <code>put</code> command in
which they appear. In particular, if you have two or more <code>put</code>
commands separated by <code>then</code>, each put will have its own set of
out-of-stream variables:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ cat data/a.dkvp
a=1,b=2,c=3
a=4,b=5,c=6
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '@sum += $a; end {emit @sum}' then put 'is_present($a) {$a=10*$a; @sum += $a}; end {emit @sum}' data/a.dkvp
a=10,b=2,c=3
a=40,b=5,c=6
sum=5
sum=50
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/> Out-of-stream variables&rsquo; <b>extent</b> is from the start to the end of the record stream,
i.e. every time the <code>put</code> or <code>filter</code> statement referring to them is executed.
<p/> Out-of-stream variables are <b>read-write</b>: you can do <code>$sum=@sum</code>, <code>@sum=$sum</code>,
etc.
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Indexed_out-of-stream_variables"/><h2>Indexed out-of-stream variables</h2>
<p/>Using an index on the <code>@count</code> and <code>@sum</code> variables, we get the benefit of the
<code>-g</code> (group-by) option which <code>mlr stats1</code> and various other Miller commands have:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '
@x_count[$a] += 1;
@x_sum[$a] += $x;
end {
emit @x_count, "a";
emit @x_sum, "a";
}
' ../data/small
a=pan,x_count=2
a=eks,x_count=3
a=wye,x_count=2
a=zee,x_count=2
a=hat,x_count=1
a=pan,x_sum=0.849416
a=eks,x_sum=1.751863
a=wye,x_sum=0.777892
a=zee,x_sum=1.125680
a=hat,x_sum=0.031442
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr stats1 -a count,sum -f x -g a ../data/small
a=pan,x_count=2,x_sum=0.849416
a=eks,x_count=3,x_sum=1.751863
a=wye,x_count=2,x_sum=0.777892
a=zee,x_count=2,x_sum=1.125680
a=hat,x_count=1,x_sum=0.031442
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Indices can be arbitrarily deep &mdash; here there are two or more of them:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/medium put -q '
@x_count[$a][$b] += 1;
@x_sum[$a][$b] += $x;
end {
emit (@x_count, @x_sum), "a", "b";
}
'
a=pan,b=pan,x_count=427,x_sum=219.185129
a=pan,b=wye,x_count=395,x_sum=198.432931
a=pan,b=eks,x_count=429,x_sum=216.075228
a=pan,b=hat,x_count=417,x_sum=205.222776
a=pan,b=zee,x_count=413,x_sum=205.097518
a=eks,b=pan,x_count=371,x_sum=179.963030
a=eks,b=wye,x_count=407,x_sum=196.945286
a=eks,b=zee,x_count=357,x_sum=176.880365
a=eks,b=eks,x_count=413,x_sum=215.916097
a=eks,b=hat,x_count=417,x_sum=208.783171
a=wye,b=wye,x_count=377,x_sum=185.295850
a=wye,b=pan,x_count=392,x_sum=195.847900
a=wye,b=hat,x_count=426,x_sum=212.033183
a=wye,b=zee,x_count=385,x_sum=194.774048
a=wye,b=eks,x_count=386,x_sum=204.812961
a=zee,b=pan,x_count=389,x_sum=202.213804
a=zee,b=wye,x_count=455,x_sum=233.991394
a=zee,b=eks,x_count=391,x_sum=190.961778
a=zee,b=zee,x_count=403,x_sum=206.640635
a=zee,b=hat,x_count=409,x_sum=191.300006
a=hat,b=wye,x_count=423,x_sum=208.883010
a=hat,b=zee,x_count=385,x_sum=196.349450
a=hat,b=eks,x_count=389,x_sum=189.006793
a=hat,b=hat,x_count=381,x_sum=182.853532
a=hat,b=pan,x_count=363,x_sum=168.553807
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
The idea is that <code>stats1</code>, and other Miller verbs, encapsulate
frequently-used patterns with a minimum of keystroking (and run a little
faster), whereas using out-of-stream variables you have more flexibility and
control in what you do.
<p/>Begin/end blocks can be mixed with pattern/action blocks. For example:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '
begin {
@num_total = 0;
@num_positive = 0;
};
@num_total += 1;
$x &gt; 0.0 {
@num_positive += 1;
$y = log10($x); $z = sqrt($y)
};
end {
emitf @num_total, @num_positive
}
' data/put-gating-example-1.dkvp
x=-1
x=0
x=1,y=0.000000,z=0.000000
x=2,y=0.301030,z=0.548662
x=3,y=0.477121,z=0.690740
num_total=5,num_positive=3
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Local_variables"/><h2>Local variables</h2>
<p/>Local variables are similar to out-of-stream variables, except that
their extent is limited to the expressions in which they appear (and their
basenames can&rsquo;t be computed using square brackets).
There are three kinds of local variables: <b>arguments</b> to
functions/subroutines, <b>variables bound within for-loops</b>, and
<b>locals</b> defined within control blocks. They may be untyped using
<code>var</code>, or typed using <code>num</code>, <code>int</code>, <code>float</code>,
<code>str</code>, <code>bool</code>, and <code>map</code>.
<p/>For example:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ # Here I'm using a specified random-number seed so this example always
# produces the same output for this web document: in everyday practice we
# would leave off the --seed 12345 part.
mlr --seed 12345 seqgen --start 1 --stop 10 then put '
func f(a, b) { # function arguments a and b
r = 0.0; # local r scoped to the function
for (int i = 0; i &lt; 6; i += 1) { # local i scoped to the for-loop
num u = urand(); # local u scoped to the for-loop
r += u; # updates r from the enclosing scope
}
r /= 6;
return a + (b - a) * r;
}
num o = f(10, 20); # local to the top-level scope
$o = o;
'
i=1,o=14.662901
i=2,o=17.881983
i=3,o=14.586560
i=4,o=16.402409
i=5,o=16.336598
i=6,o=14.622701
i=7,o=15.983753
i=8,o=13.852177
i=9,o=15.472899
i=10,o=15.643912
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Things which are completely unsurprising, resembling many other languages:
<ul>
<li/> Parameter names are bound to their arguments but can be reassigned, e.g.
if there is a parameter named <code>a</code> then you can reassign the value of
<code>a</code> to be something else within the function if you like.
<li/> However, you cannot redeclare the <i>type</i> of an argument or a local:
<code>var a=1; var a=2</code> is an error but
<code>var a=1; a=2</code> is OK.
<li/> All argument-passing is positional rather than by name; arguments are
passed by value, not by reference. (This is also true for map-valued variables:
they are not, and cannot be, passed by reference)
<li/> You can define locals (using <code>var</code>, <code>num</code>, etc.) at any
scope (if-statements, else-statements, while-loops, for-loops, or the top-level
scope), and nested scopes will have access (more details on scope in the next
section). If you define a local variable with the same name inside an inner
scope, then a new variable is created with the narrower scope.
<li/> If you assign to a local variable for the first time in a scope without
declaring it as <code>var</code>, <code>num</code>, etc. then: if it exists in an outer
scope, that outer-scope variable will be updated; if not, it will be defined in
the current scope as if <code>var</code> had been used. (See also <a
href="#Type-checking">here</a> for an example.) I recommend always declaring
variables explicitly to make the intended scoping clear.
<li/> Functions and subroutines never have access to locals from their callee
(unless passed by value as arguments).
</ul>
<p/>Things which are perhaps surprising compared to other languages:
<ul>
<li/> Type declarations using <code>var</code>, or typed using <code>num</code>,
<code>int</code>, <code>float</code>, <code>str</code>, and <code>bool</code> are necessary to
declare local variables. Function arguments and variables bound in for-loops
over stream records and out-of-stream variables are <i>implicitly</i> declared
using <code>var</code>. (Some examples are shown below.)
<li/> Type-checking is done at assignment time. For example, <code>float f =
0</code> is an error (since <code>0</code> is an integer), as is <code>float f = 0.0; f
= 1</code>. For this reason I prefer to use <code>num</code> over <code>float</code> in
most contexts since <code>num</code> encompasses integer and floating-point values.
More information about type-checking is <a href="#Type-checking">here</a>.
<li/> Bound variables in for-loops over stream records and out-of-stream
variables are implicitly local to that block. E.g. in
<code>for (k, v in $*) { ... }</code>
<code>for ((k1, k2), v in @*) { ... }</code>
if there are <code>k</code>, <code>v</code>, etc. in the enclosing scope then those
will be masked by the loop-local bound variables in the loop, and moreover
the values of the loop-local bound variables are not available after the
end of the loop.
<li/> For C-style triple-for loops, if a for-loop variable is defined using
<code>var</code>, <code>int</code>, etc. then it is scoped to that for-loop. E.g.
<code>for (i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) { ... }</code> and <code>for (int i = 0; i < 10; i
+= 1) { ... }</code>. (This is unsurprising.). If there is no typedecl and an
outer-scope variable of that name exists, then it is used. (This is also
unsurprising.) But of there is no outer-scope variable of that name then the
variable is scoped to the for-loop only.
</ul>
<p/> The following example demonstrates the scope rules:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ cat data/scope-example.mlr
func f(a) { # argument is local to the function
var b = 100; # local to the function
c = 100; # local to the function; does not overwrite outer c
return a + 1;
}
var a = 10; # local at top level
var b = 20; # local at top level
c = 30; # local at top level; there is no more-outer-scope c
if (NR == 3) {
var a = 40; # scoped to the if-statement; doesn't overwrite outer a
b = 50; # not scoped to the if-statement; overwrites outer b
c = 60; # not scoped to the if-statement; overwrites outer c
d = 70; # there is no outer d so a local d is created here
$inner_a = a;
$inner_b = b;
$inner_c = c;
$inner_d = d;
}
$outer_a = a;
$outer_b = b;
$outer_c = c;
$outer_d = d; # there is no outer d defined so no assignment happens
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ cat data/scope-example.dat
n=1,x=123
n=2,x=456
n=3,x=789
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --oxtab --from data/scope-example.dat put -f data/scope-example.mlr
n 1
x 123
outer_a 10
outer_b 20
outer_c 30
n 2
x 456
outer_a 10
outer_b 20
outer_c 30
n 3
x 789
inner_a 40
inner_b 50
inner_c 60
inner_d 70
outer_a 10
outer_b 50
outer_c 60
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/> And this example demonstrates the type-declaration rules:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ cat data/type-decl-example.mlr
subr s(a, str b, int c) { # a is implicitly var (untyped).
# b is explicitly str.
# c is explicitly int.
# The type-checking is done at the callsite
# when arguments are bound to parameters.
#
var b = 100; # error # Re-declaration in the same scope is disallowed.
int n = 10; # Declaration of variable local to the subroutine.
n = 20; # Assignment is OK.
int n = 30; # error # Re-declaration in the same scope is disallowed.
str n = "abc"; # error # Re-declaration in the same scope is disallowed.
#
float f1 = 1; # error # 1 is an int, not a float.
float f2 = 2.0; # 2.0 is a float.
num f3 = 3; # 3 is a num.
num f4 = 4.0; # 4.0 is a num.
} #
#
call s(1, 2, 3); # Type-assertion '3 is int' is done here at the callsite.
#
k = "def"; # Top-level variable k.
#
for (str k, v in $*) { # k and v are bound here, masking outer k.
print k . ":" . v; # k is explicitly str; v is implicitly var.
} #
#
print "k is".k; # k at this scope level is still "def".
print "v is".v; # v is undefined in this scope.
#
i = -1; #
for (i = 1, int j = 2; i &lt;= 10; i += 1, j *= 2) { # C-style triple-for variables use enclosing scope, unless
# declared local: i is outer, j is local to the loop.
print "inner i =" . i; #
print "inner j =" . j; #
} #
print "outer i =" . i; # i has been modified by the loop.
print "outer j =" . j; # j is undefined in this scope.
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Map_literals"/><h2>Map literals</h2>
<p/>Miller&rsquo;s <code>put</code>/<code>filter</code> DSL has four kinds of hashmaps.
<b>Stream records</b> are (single-level) maps from name to value.
<b>Out-of-stream variables</b> and <b>local variables</b> can also be maps,
although they can be multi-level hashmaps (e.g. <code>@sum[$x][$y]</code>). The
fourth kind is <b>map literals</b>. These cannot be on the left-hand side of
assignment expressions. Syntactically they look like JSON, although Miller
allows string and integer keys in its map literals while JSON allows only
string keys (e.g. <code>"3"</code> rather than <code>3</code>).
<p/> For example, the following swaps the input stream&rsquo;s <code>a</code> and
<code>i</code> fields, modifies <code>y</code>, and drops the rest:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --opprint put '
$* = {
"a": $i,
"i": $a,
"y": $y * 10,
}
' data/small
a i y
1 pan 7.268029
2 eks 5.221511
3 wye 3.383185
4 eks 1.341887
5 wye 8.636245
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Likewise, you can assign map literals to out-of-stream variables or local variables;
pass them as arguments to user-defined functions, return them from functions, and so on:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small put '
func f(map m): map {
m["x"] *= 200;
return m;
}
$* = f({"a": $a, "x": $x});
'
a=pan,x=69.358029
a=eks,x=151.735993
a=wye,x=40.920661
a=eks,x=76.279879
a=wye,x=114.657784
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/> Like out-of-stream and local variables, map literals can be multi-level:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small put -q '
begin {
@o = {
"nrec": 0,
"nkey": {"numeric":0, "non-numeric":0},
};
}
@o["nrec"] += 1;
for (k, v in $*) {
if (is_numeric(v)) {
@o["nkey"]["numeric"] += 1;
} else {
@o["nkey"]["non-numeric"] += 1;
}
}
end {
dump @o;
}
'
{
"nrec": 5,
"nkey": {
"numeric": 15,
"non-numeric": 10
}
}
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>By default, map-valued expressions are dumped using JSON formatting. If you
use <code>dump</code> to print a hashmap with integer keys and you don&rsquo;t want
them double-quoted (JSON-style) then you can use <code>mlr put
--jknquoteint</code>. See also <code>mlr put --help</code>.
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Type-checking"/><h2>Type-checking</h2>
<p/> Miller&rsquo;s <code>put</code>/<code>filter</code> DSLs support two optional
kinds of type-checking. One is inline <b>type-tests</b> and
<b>type-assertions</b> within expressions. The other is <b>type
declarations</b> for assignments to local variables, binding of arguments to
user-defined functions, and return values from user-defined functions, These
are discussed in the following subsections.
<p/> Use of type-checking is entirely up to you: omit it if you want
flexibility with heterogeneous data; use it if you want to help catch
misspellings in your DSL code or unexpected irregularities in your input data.
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Type-test_and_type-assertion_expressions"/><h3>Type-test and type-assertion expressions</h3>
<p/> The following <code>is...</code> functions take a value and return a boolean
indicating whether the argument is of the indicated type. The
<code>assert_...</code> functions return their argument if it is of the specified
type, and cause a fatal error otherwise:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr -F | grep ^is
is_absent
is_bool
is_boolean
is_empty
is_empty_map
is_float
is_int
is_map
is_nonempty_map
is_not_empty
is_not_map
is_not_null
is_null
is_numeric
is_present
is_string
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
</td>
<td>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr -F | grep ^assert
asserting_absent
asserting_bool
asserting_boolean
asserting_empty
asserting_empty_map
asserting_float
asserting_int
asserting_map
asserting_nonempty_map
asserting_not_empty
asserting_not_map
asserting_not_null
asserting_null
asserting_numeric
asserting_present
asserting_string
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p/> Please see the <a href="cookbook.html#Data-cleaning_examples">Cookbook part 1</a> for examples
of how to use these.
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Type-declarations_for_local_variables,_function_parameter,_and_function_return_values"/><h3>Type-declarations for local variables, function parameter, and function return values</h3>
<p/> Local variables can be defined either untyped as in <code>x = 1</code>, or
typed as in <code>int x = 1</code>. Types include <b>var</b> (explicitly untyped),
<b>int</b>, <b>float</b>, <b>num</b> (int or float), <b>str</b>, <b>bool</b>,
and <b>map</b>. These optional type declarations are enforced at the time
values are assigned to variables: whether at the initial value assignment as in
<code>int x = 1</code> or in any subsequent assignments to the same variable
farther down in the scope.
<p/> The reason for <code>num</code> is that <code>int</code> and <code>float</code> typedecls are very precise:
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
float a = 0; # Runtime error since 0 is int not float
int b = 1.0; # Runtime error since 1.0 is float not int
num c = 0; # OK
num d = 1.0; # OK
</pre>
</div>
<p/> A suggestion is to use <code>num</code> for general use when you want numeric
content, and use <code>int</code> when you genuinely want integer-only values, e.g.
in loop indices or map keys (since Miller map keys can only be strings or
ints).
<p/> The <code>var</code> type declaration indicates no type restrictions, e.g.
<code>var x = 1</code> has the same type restrictions on <code>x</code> as <code>x =
1</code>. The difference is in intentional shadowing: if you have <code>x = 1</code>
in outer scope and <code>x = 2</code> in inner scope (e.g. within a for-loop or an
if-statement) then outer-scope <code>x</code> has value 2 after the second
assignment. But if you have <code>var x = 2</code> in the inner scope, then you
are declaring a variable scoped to the inner block.) For example:
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
x = 1;
if (NR == 4) {
x = 2; # Refers to outer-scope x: value changes from 1 to 2.
}
print x; # Value of x is now two
</pre>
</div>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
x = 1;
if (NR == 4) {
var x = 2; # Defines a new inner-scope x with value 2
}
print x; # Value of this x is still 1
</pre>
</div>
<p/> Likewise function arguments can optionally be typed, with type enforced
when the function is called:
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
func f(map m, int i) {
...
}
$a = f({1:2, 3:4}, 5); # OK
$b = f({1:2, 3:4}, "abc"); # Runtime error
$c = f({1:2, 3:4}, $x); # Runtime error for records with non-integer field named x
if (NR == 4) {
var x = 2; # Defines a new inner-scope x with value 2
}
print x; # Value of this x is still 1
</pre>
</div>
<p/> Thirdly, function return values can be type-checked at the point of
<code>return</code> using <code>:</code> and a typedecl after the parameter list:
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
func f(map m, int i): bool {
...
...
if (...) {
return "false"; # Runtime error if this branch is taken
}
...
...
if (...) {
return retval; # Runtime error if this function doesn't have an in-scope
# boolean-valued variable named retval
}
...
...
# In Miller if your functions don't explicitly return a value, they return absent-null.
# So it would also be a runtime error on reaching the end of this function without
# an explicit return statement.
}
</pre>
</div>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Null_data:_empty_and_absent"/><h2>Null data: empty and absent</h2>
<p/> Please see
<a href="reference.html#Null_data:_empty_and_absent">here</a>.
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Aggregate_variable_assignments"/><h2>Aggregate variable assignments</h2>
<p/>There are three remaining kinds of variable assignment using out-of-stream
variables, the last two of which use the <code>$*</code> syntax:
<ul>
<li/> Recursive copy of out-of-stream variables
<li/> Out-of-stream variable assigned to full stream record
<li/> Full stream record assigned to an out-of-stream variable
</ul>
<p/> Example recursive copy of out-of-stream variables:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --opprint put -q '@v["sum"] += $x; @v["count"] += 1; end{dump; @w = @v; dump}' data/small
{
"v": {
"sum": 2.264762,
"count": 5
}
}
{
"v": {
"sum": 2.264762,
"count": 5
},
"w": {
"sum": 2.264762,
"count": 5
}
}
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Example of out-of-stream variable assigned to full stream record, where the 2nd record is stashed, and the 4th record is overwritten with that:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put 'NR == 2 {@keep = $*}; NR == 4 {$* = @keep}' data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Example of full stream record assigned to an out-of-stream variable, finding
the record for which the <code>x</code> field has the largest value in the input
stream:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ cat data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --opprint put -q 'is_null(@xmax) || $x &gt; @xmax {@xmax=$x; @recmax=$*}; end {emit @recmax}' data/small
a b i x y
eks pan 2 0.7586799647899636 0.5221511083334797
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Keywords_for_filter_and_put"/><h2>Keywords for filter and put</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --help-all-keywords
all: used in "emit", "emitp", and "unset" as a synonym for @*
begin: defines a block of statements to be executed before input records
are ingested. The body statements must be wrapped in curly braces.
Example: 'begin { @count = 0 }'
bool: declares a boolean local variable in the current curly-braced scope.
Type-checking happens at assignment: 'bool b = 1' is an error.
break: causes execution to continue after the body of the current
for/while/do-while loop.
call: used for invoking a user-defined subroutine.
Example: 'subr s(k,v) { print k . " is " . v} call s("a", $a)'
continue: causes execution to skip the remaining statements in the body of
the current for/while/do-while loop. For-loop increments are still applied.
do: with "while", introduces a do-while loop. The body statements must be wrapped
in curly braces.
dump: prints all currently defined out-of-stream variables immediately
to stdout as JSON.
With &gt;, &gt;&gt;, or |, the data do not become part of the output record stream but
are instead redirected.
The &gt; and &gt;&gt; are for write and append, as in the shell, but (as with awk) the
file-overwrite for &gt; is on first write, not per record. The | is for piping to
a process which will process the data. There will be one open file for each
distinct file name (for &gt; and &gt;&gt;) or one subordinate process for each distinct
value of the piped-to command (for |). Output-formatting flags are taken from
the main command line.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q '@v[NR]=$*; end { dump }'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q '@v[NR]=$*; end { dump &gt; "mytap.dat"}'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q '@v[NR]=$*; end { dump &gt;&gt; "mytap.dat"}'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q '@v[NR]=$*; end { dump | "jq .[]"}'
edump: prints all currently defined out-of-stream variables immediately
to stderr as JSON.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q '@v[NR]=$*; end { edump }'
elif: the way Miller spells "else if". The body statements must be wrapped
in curly braces.
else: terminates an if/elif/elif chain. The body statements must be wrapped
in curly braces.
emit: inserts an out-of-stream variable into the output record stream. Hashmap
indices present in the data but not slotted by emit arguments are not output.
With &gt;, &gt;&gt;, or |, the data do not become part of the output record stream but
are instead redirected.
The &gt; and &gt;&gt; are for write and append, as in the shell, but (as with awk) the
file-overwrite for &gt; is on first write, not per record. The | is for piping to
a process which will process the data. There will be one open file for each
distinct file name (for &gt; and &gt;&gt;) or one subordinate process for each distinct
value of the piped-to command (for |). Output-formatting flags are taken from
the main command line.
You can use any of the output-format command-line flags, e.g. --ocsv, --ofs,
etc., to control the format of the output if the output is redirected. See also mlr -h.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'emit &gt; "/tmp/data-".$a, $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'emit &gt; "/tmp/data-".$a, mapexcept($*, "a")'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit @sums'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put --ojson '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit &gt; "tap-".$a.$b.".dat", @sums'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit @sums, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit &gt; "mytap.dat", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit &gt;&gt; "mytap.dat", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit | "gzip &gt; mytap.dat.gz", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit &gt; stderr, @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit | "grep somepattern", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Please see http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc for more information.
emitf: inserts non-indexed out-of-stream variable(s) side-by-side into the
output record stream.
With &gt;, &gt;&gt;, or |, the data do not become part of the output record stream but
are instead redirected.
The &gt; and &gt;&gt; are for write and append, as in the shell, but (as with awk) the
file-overwrite for &gt; is on first write, not per record. The | is for piping to
a process which will process the data. There will be one open file for each
distinct file name (for &gt; and &gt;&gt;) or one subordinate process for each distinct
value of the piped-to command (for |). Output-formatting flags are taken from
the main command line.
You can use any of the output-format command-line flags, e.g. --ocsv, --ofs,
etc., to control the format of the output if the output is redirected. See also mlr -h.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf @a'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put --oxtab '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf &gt; "tap-".$i.".dat", @a'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf @a, @b, @c'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf &gt; "mytap.dat", @a, @b, @c'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf &gt;&gt; "mytap.dat", @a, @b, @c'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf &gt; stderr, @a, @b, @c'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf | "grep somepattern", @a, @b, @c'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf | "grep somepattern &gt; mytap.dat", @a, @b, @c'
Please see http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc for more information.
emitp: inserts an out-of-stream variable into the output record stream.
Hashmap indices present in the data but not slotted by emitp arguments are
output concatenated with ":".
With &gt;, &gt;&gt;, or |, the data do not become part of the output record stream but
are instead redirected.
The &gt; and &gt;&gt; are for write and append, as in the shell, but (as with awk) the
file-overwrite for &gt; is on first write, not per record. The | is for piping to
a process which will process the data. There will be one open file for each
distinct file name (for &gt; and &gt;&gt;) or one subordinate process for each distinct
value of the piped-to command (for |). Output-formatting flags are taken from
the main command line.
You can use any of the output-format command-line flags, e.g. --ocsv, --ofs,
etc., to control the format of the output if the output is redirected. See also mlr -h.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp @sums'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put --opprint '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp &gt; "tap-".$a.$b.".dat", @sums'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp @sums, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp &gt; "mytap.dat", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp &gt;&gt; "mytap.dat", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp | "gzip &gt; mytap.dat.gz", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp &gt; stderr, @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp | "grep somepattern", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Please see http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc for more information.
end: defines a block of statements to be executed after input records
are ingested. The body statements must be wrapped in curly braces.
Example: 'end { emit @count }'
Example: 'end { eprint "Final count is " . @count }'
eprint: prints expression immediately to stderr.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'eprint "The sum of x and y is ".($x+$y)'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'for (k, v in $*) { eprint k . " =&gt; " . v }'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '(NR % 1000 == 0) { eprint "Checkpoint ".NR}'
eprintn: prints expression immediately to stderr, without trailing newline.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'eprintn "The sum of x and y is ".($x+$y); eprint ""'
false: the boolean literal value.
filter: includes/excludes the record in the output record stream.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'filter (NR == 2 || $x &gt; 5.4)'
Instead of put with 'filter false' you can simply use put -q. The following
uses the input record to accumulate data but only prints the running sum
without printing the input record:
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q '@running_sum += $x * $y; emit @running_sum'
float: declares a floating-point local variable in the current curly-braced scope.
Type-checking happens at assignment: 'float x = 0' is an error.
for: defines a for-loop using one of three styles. The body statements must
be wrapped in curly braces.
For-loop over stream record:
Example: 'for (k, v in $*) { ... }'
For-loop over out-of-stream variables:
Example: 'for (k, v in @counts) { ... }'
Example: 'for ((k1, k2), v in @counts) { ... }'
Example: 'for ((k1, k2, k3), v in @*) { ... }'
C-style for-loop:
Example: 'for (var i = 0, var b = 1; i &lt; 10; i += 1, b *= 2) { ... }'
func: used for defining a user-defined function.
Example: 'func f(a,b) { return sqrt(a**2+b**2)} $d = f($x, $y)'
if: starts an if/elif/elif chain. The body statements must be wrapped
in curly braces.
in: used in for-loops over stream records or out-of-stream variables.
int: declares an integer local variable in the current curly-braced scope.
Type-checking happens at assignment: 'int x = 0.0' is an error.
map: declares an map-valued local variable in the current curly-braced scope.
Type-checking happens at assignment: 'map b = 0' is an error. map b = {} is
always OK. map b = a is OK or not depending on whether a is a map.
num: declares an int/float local variable in the current curly-braced scope.
Type-checking happens at assignment: 'num b = true' is an error.
print: prints expression immediately to stdout.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'print "The sum of x and y is ".($x+$y)'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'for (k, v in $*) { print k . " =&gt; " . v }'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '(NR % 1000 == 0) { print &gt; stderr, "Checkpoint ".NR}'
printn: prints expression immediately to stdout, without trailing newline.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'printn "."; end { print "" }'
return: specifies the return value from a user-defined function.
Omitted return statements (including via if-branches) result in an absent-null
return value, which in turns results in a skipped assignment to an LHS.
stderr: Used for tee, emit, emitf, emitp, print, and dump in place of filename
to print to standard error.
stdout: Used for tee, emit, emitf, emitp, print, and dump in place of filename
to print to standard output.
str: declares a string local variable in the current curly-braced scope.
Type-checking happens at assignment.
subr: used for defining a subroutine.
Example: 'subr s(k,v) { print k . " is " . v} call s("a", $a)'
tee: prints the current record to specified file.
This is an immediate print to the specified file (except for pprint format
which of course waits until the end of the input stream to format all output).
The &gt; and &gt;&gt; are for write and append, as in the shell, but (as with awk) the
file-overwrite for &gt; is on first write, not per record. The | is for piping to
a process which will process the data. There will be one open file for each
distinct file name (for &gt; and &gt;&gt;) or one subordinate process for each distinct
value of the piped-to command (for |). Output-formatting flags are taken from
the main command line.
You can use any of the output-format command-line flags, e.g. --ocsv, --ofs,
etc., to control the format of the output. See also mlr -h.
emit with redirect and tee with redirect are identical, except tee can only
output $*.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'tee &gt; "/tmp/data-".$a, $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'tee &gt;&gt; "/tmp/data-".$a.$b, $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'tee &gt; stderr, $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'tee | "tr [a-z\] [A-Z\]", $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'tee | "tr [a-z\] [A-Z\] &gt; /tmp/data-".$a, $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'tee | "gzip &gt; /tmp/data-".$a.".gz", $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q --ojson 'tee | "gzip &gt; /tmp/data-".$a.".gz", $*'
true: the boolean literal value.
unset: clears field(s) from the current record, or an out-of-stream or local variable.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'unset $x'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'unset $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'for (k, v in $*) { if (k =~ "a.*") { unset $[k] } }'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '...; unset @sums'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '...; unset @sums["green"]'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '...; unset @*'
var: declares an untyped local variable in the current curly-braced scope.
Examples: 'var a=1', 'var xyz=""'
while: introduces a while loop, or with "do", introduces a do-while loop.
The body statements must be wrapped in curly braces.
ENV: access to environment variables by name, e.g. '$home = ENV["HOME"]'
FILENAME: evaluates to the name of the current file being processed.
FILENUM: evaluates to the number of the current file being processed,
starting with 1.
FNR: evaluates to the number of the current record within the current file
being processed, starting with 1. Resets at the start of each file.
IFS: evaluates to the input field separator from the command line.
IPS: evaluates to the input pair separator from the command line.
IRS: evaluates to the input record separator from the command line,
or to LF or CRLF from the input data if in autodetect mode (which is
the default).
M_E: the mathematical constant e.
M_PI: the mathematical constant pi.
NF: evaluates to the number of fields in the current record.
NR: evaluates to the number of the current record over all files
being processed, starting with 1. Does not reset at the start of each file.
OFS: evaluates to the output field separator from the command line.
OPS: evaluates to the output pair separator from the command line.
ORS: evaluates to the output record separator from the command line,
or to LF or CRLF from the input data if in autodetect mode (which is
the default).
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
</div>
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<a id="Operator_precedence"/><h1>Operator precedence</h1>
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<p/>Operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence, highest first.
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
Operators Associativity
--------- -------------
() left to right
** right to left
! ~ unary+ unary- &amp; right to left
binary* / // % left to right
binary+ binary- . left to right
&lt;&lt; &gt;&gt; left to right
&amp; left to right
^ left to right
| left to right
&lt; &lt;= &gt; &gt;= left to right
== != =~ !=~ left to right
&amp;&amp; left to right
^^ left to right
|| left to right
? : right to left
= N/A for Miller (there is no $a=$b=$c)
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
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<a id="Operator_and_function_semantics"/><h1>Operator and function semantics</h1>
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<ul>
<li/> Functions are in general pass-throughs straight to the system-standard C
library.
<li/> The <code>min</code> and <code>max</code> functions are different from other
multi-argument functions which return null if any of their inputs are null: for
<code>min</code> and <code>max</code>, by contrast, if one argument is absent-null, the other
is returned. Empty-null loses min or max against numeric or boolean; empty-null
is less than any other string.
<li/> Symmetrically with respect to the bitwise OR, XOR, and AND operators
<code>|</code>, <code>^</code>, <code>&amp;</code>, Miller has logical operators
<code>||</code>, <code>^^</code>, <code>&amp;&amp;</code>: the logical XOR not existing in
C.
<li/> The exponentiation operator <code>**</code> is familiar from many languages.
<li/> The regex-match and regex-not-match operators <code>=~</code> and
<code>!=~</code> are similar to those in Ruby and Perl.
</ul>
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<a id="Control_structures"/><h1>Control structures</h1>
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<a id="Pattern-action_blocks"/><h2>Pattern-action blocks</h2>
<p/>These are reminiscent of <code>awk</code> syntax. They can be used to allow
assignments to be done only when appropriate &mdash; e.g. for math-function
domain restrictions, regex-matching, and so on:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr cat data/put-gating-example-1.dkvp
x=-1
x=0
x=1
x=2
x=3
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$x &gt; 0.0 { $y = log10($x); $z = sqrt($y) }' data/put-gating-example-1.dkvp
x=-1
x=0
x=1,y=0.000000,z=0.000000
x=2,y=0.301030,z=0.548662
x=3,y=0.477121,z=0.690740
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr cat data/put-gating-example-2.dkvp
a=abc_123
a=some other name
a=xyz_789
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$a =~ "([a-z]+)_([0-9]+)" { $b = "left_\1"; $c = "right_\2" }' data/put-gating-example-2.dkvp
a=abc_123,b=left_abc,c=right_123
a=some other name
a=xyz_789,b=left_xyz,c=right_789
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>This produces heteregenous output which Miller, of course, has no problems
with (see <a href="record-heterogeneity.html">Record-heterogeneity</a>). But if you
want homogeneous output, the curly braces can be replaced with a semicolon
between the expression and the body statements. This causes <code>put</code> to
evaluate the boolean expression (along with any side effects, namely,
regex-captures <code>\1</code>, <code>\2</code>, etc.) but doesn&rsquo;t use it as a
criterion for whether subsequent assignments should be executed. Instead,
subsequent assignments are done unconditionally:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$x &gt; 0.0; $y = log10($x); $z = sqrt($y)' data/put-gating-example-1.dkvp
x=-1,y=nan,z=nan
x=0,y=-inf,z=nan
x=1,y=0.000000,z=0.000000
x=2,y=0.301030,z=0.548662
x=3,y=0.477121,z=0.690740
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$a =~ "([a-z]+)_([0-9]+)"; $b = "left_\1"; $c = "right_\2"' data/put-gating-example-2.dkvp
a=abc_123,b=left_abc,c=right_123
a=some other name,b=left_,c=right_
a=xyz_789,b=left_xyz,c=right_789
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
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<a id="If-statements"/><h2>If-statements</h2>
<p/>These are again reminiscent of <code>awk</code>. Pattern-action blocks are a special case of <code>if</code> with no
<code>elif</code> or <code>else</code> blocks, no <code>if</code> keyword, and parentheses optional around the boolean expression:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mlr put 'NR == 4 {$foo = "bar"}'
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mlr put 'if (NR == 4) {$foo = "bar"}'
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Compound statements use <code>elif</code> (rather than <code>elsif</code> or <code>else if</code>):
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mlr put '
if (NR == 2) {
...
} elif (NR ==4) {
...
} elif (NR ==6) {
...
} else {
...
}
'
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
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<a id="While_and_do-while_loops"/><h2>While and do-while loops</h2>
<p/>Miller&rsquo;s <code>while</code> and <code>do-while</code> are unsurprising in
comparison to various languages, as are <code>break</code> and <code>continue</code>:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ echo x=1,y=2 | mlr put '
while (NF &lt; 10) {
$[NF+1] = ""
}
$foo = "bar"
'
x=1,y=2,3=,4=,5=,6=,7=,8=,9=,10=,foo=bar
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ echo x=1,y=2 | mlr put '
do {
$[NF+1] = "";
if (NF == 5) {
break
}
} while (NF &lt; 10);
$foo = "bar"
'
x=1,y=2,3=,4=,5=,foo=bar
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/> A <code>break</code> or <code>continue</code> within nested conditional blocks or
if-statements will, of course, propagate to the innermost loop enclosing them,
if any. A <code>break</code> or <code>continue</code> outside a loop is a syntax error
that will be flagged as soon as the expression is parsed, before any input
records are ingested.
<p/> The existence of <code>while</code>, <code>do-while</code>, and <code>for</code> loops
in Miller&rsquo;s DSL means that you can create infinite-loop scenarios
inadvertently. In particular, please recall that DSL statements are executed
once if in <code>begin</code> or <code>end</code> blocks, and once <i>per record</i>
otherwise. For example, <b><code>while (NR < 10)</code> will never terminate as
<code>NR</code> is only incremented between records</b>.
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<a id="For-loops"/><h2>For-loops</h2>
<p/>While Miller&rsquo;s <code>while</code> and <code>do-while</code> statements are
much as in many other languages, <code>for</code> loops are more idiosyncratic to
Miller. They are loops over key-value pairs, whether in stream records,
out-of-stream variables, local variables, or map-literals: more reminiscent of
<code>foreach</code>, as in (for example) PHP. There are <b>for-loops over map
keys</b> and <b>for-loops over key-value tuples</b>. Additionally, Miller has a
<b>C-style triple-for loop</b> with initialize, test, and update statements.
<p/>As with <code>while</code> and <code>do-while</code>, a <code>break</code> or
<code>continue</code> within nested control structures will propagate to the
innermost loop enclosing them, if any, and a <code>break</code> or
<code>continue</code> outside a loop is a syntax error that will be flagged as soon
as the expression is parsed, before any input records are ingested.
<a id="Key-only_for-loops"/><h3>Key-only for-loops </h3>
<p/>The <code>key</code> variable is always bound to the <i>key</i> of key-value pairs:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small put '
print "NR = ".NR;
for (key in $*) {
value = $[key];
print " key:" . key . " value:".value;
}
'
NR = 1
key:a value:pan
key:b value:pan
key:i value:1
key:x value:0.346790
key:y value:0.726803
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
NR = 2
key:a value:eks
key:b value:pan
key:i value:2
key:x value:0.758680
key:y value:0.522151
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
NR = 3
key:a value:wye
key:b value:wye
key:i value:3
key:x value:0.204603
key:y value:0.338319
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
NR = 4
key:a value:eks
key:b value:wye
key:i value:4
key:x value:0.381399
key:y value:0.134189
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
NR = 5
key:a value:wye
key:b value:pan
key:i value:5
key:x value:0.573289
key:y value:0.863624
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr -n put '
end {
o = {1:2, 3:{4:5}};
for (key in o) {
print " key:" . key . " valuetype:" . typeof(o[key]);
}
}
'
key:1 valuetype:int
key:3 valuetype:map
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Note that the value corresponding to a given key may be gotten as through a
<b>computed field name</b> using square brackets as in <code>$[key]</code> for
stream records, or by indexing the looped-over variable using square brackets.
<a id="Key-value_for-loops"/><h3>Key-value for-loops </h3>
<p/>Single-level keys may be gotten at using either <code>for(k,v)</code> or
<code>for((k),v)</code>; multi-level keys may be gotten at using
<code>for((k1,k2,k3),v)</code> and so on. The <code>v</code> variable will be bound to
to a scalar value (a string or a number) if the map stops at that level, or to
a map-valued variable if the map goes deeper. If the map isn&rsquo;t deep
enough then the loop body won&rsquo;t be executed.
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ cat data/for-srec-example.tbl
label1 label2 f1 f2 f3
blue green 100 240 350
red green 120 11 195
yellow blue 140 0 240
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --pprint --from data/for-srec-example.tbl put '
$sum1 = $f1 + $f2 + $f3;
$sum2 = 0;
$sum3 = 0;
for (key, value in $*) {
if (key =~ "^f[0-9]+") {
$sum2 += value;
$sum3 += $[key];
}
}
'
label1 label2 f1 f2 f3 sum1 sum2 sum3
blue green 100 240 350 690 690 690
red green 120 11 195 326 326 326
yellow blue 140 0 240 380 380 380
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small --opprint put 'for (k,v in $*) { $[k."_type"] = typeof(v) }'
a b i x y a_type b_type i_type x_type y_type
pan pan 1 0.3467901443380824 0.7268028627434533 string string int float float
eks pan 2 0.7586799647899636 0.5221511083334797 string string int float float
wye wye 3 0.20460330576630303 0.33831852551664776 string string int float float
eks wye 4 0.38139939387114097 0.13418874328430463 string string int float float
wye pan 5 0.5732889198020006 0.8636244699032729 string string int float float
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Note that the value of the current field in the for-loop can be gotten either using the bound
variable <code>value</code>, or through a <b>computed field name</b> using square brackets as in <code>$[key]</code>.
<p/>Important note: to avoid inconsistent looping behavior in case you&rsquo;re
setting new fields (and/or unsetting existing ones) while looping over the
record, <b>Miller makes a copy of the record before the loop: loop variables
are bound from the copy and all other reads/writes involve the record
itself</b>:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small --opprint put '
$sum1 = 0;
$sum2 = 0;
for (k,v in $*) {
if (is_numeric(v)) {
$sum1 +=v;
$sum2 += $[k];
}
}
'
a b i x y sum1 sum2
pan pan 1 0.3467901443380824 0.7268028627434533 2.073593 8.294372
eks pan 2 0.7586799647899636 0.5221511083334797 3.280831 13.123324
wye wye 3 0.20460330576630303 0.33831852551664776 3.542922 14.171687
eks wye 4 0.38139939387114097 0.13418874328430463 4.515588 18.062353
wye pan 5 0.5732889198020006 0.8636244699032729 6.436913 25.747654
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
It can be confusing to modify the stream record while iterating over a copy of it, so
instead you might find it simpler to use a local variable in the loop and only update
the stream record after the loop:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small --opprint put '
sum = 0;
for (k,v in $*) {
if (is_numeric(v)) {
sum += $[k];
}
}
$sum = sum
'
a b i x y sum
pan pan 1 0.3467901443380824 0.7268028627434533 2.073593
eks pan 2 0.7586799647899636 0.5221511083334797 3.280831
wye wye 3 0.20460330576630303 0.33831852551664776 3.542922
eks wye 4 0.38139939387114097 0.13418874328430463 4.515588
wye pan 5 0.5732889198020006 0.8636244699032729 6.436913
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>You can also start iterating on sub-hashmaps of an out-of-stream or local
variable; you can loop over nested keys; you can loop over all out-of-stream
variables. The bound variables are bound to a copy of the sub-hashmap as it
was before the loop started. The sub-hashmap is specified by square-bracketed
indices after <code>in</code>, and additional deeper indices are bound to loop
key-variables. The terminal values are bound to the loop value-variable
whenever the keys are not too shallow. The value-variable may refer to a
terminal (string, number) or it may be map-valued if the map goes deeper.
Example indexing is as follows:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
# Parentheses are optional for single key:
for (k1, v in @a["b"]["c"]) { ... }
for ((k1), v in @a["b"]["c"]) { ... }
# Parentheses are required for multiple keys:
for ((k1, k2), v in @a["b"]["c"]) { ... } # Loop over subhashmap of a variable
for ((k1, k2, k3), v in @a["b"]["c"]) { ... } # Ditto
for ((k1, k2, k3), v in @a { ... } # Loop over variable starting from basename
for ((k1, k2, k3), v in @* { ... } # Loop over all variables (k1 is bound to basename)
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>That&rsquo;s confusing in the abstract, so a concrete example is in order.
Suppose the out-of-stream variable <code>@myvar</code> is populated as follows:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr -n put --jknquoteint -q '
begin {
@myvar = {
1: 2,
3: { 4 : 5 },
6: { 7: { 8: 9 } }
}
}
end { dump }
'
{
"myvar": {
1: 2,
3: {
4: 5
},
6: {
7: {
8: 9
}
}
}
}
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/> Then we can get at various values as follows:
<table><tr><td>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr -n put --jknquoteint -q '
begin {
@myvar = {
1: 2,
3: { 4 : 5 },
6: { 7: { 8: 9 } }
}
}
end {
for (k, v in @myvar) {
print
"key=" . k .
",valuetype=" . typeof(v);
}
}
'
key=1,valuetype=int
key=3,valuetype=map
key=6,valuetype=map
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
</td><td>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr -n put --jknquoteint -q '
begin {
@myvar = {
1: 2,
3: { 4 : 5 },
6: { 7: { 8: 9 } }
}
}
end {
for ((k1, k2), v in @myvar) {
print
"key1=" . k1 .
",key2=" . k2 .
",valuetype=" . typeof(v);
}
}
'
key1=3,key2=4,valuetype=int
key1=6,key2=7,valuetype=map
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
</td><td>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr -n put --jknquoteint -q '
begin {
@myvar = {
1: 2,
3: { 4 : 5 },
6: { 7: { 8: 9 } }
}
}
end {
for ((k1, k2), v in @myvar[6]) {
print
"key1=" . k1 .
",key2=" . k2 .
",valuetype=" . typeof(v);
}
}
'
key1=7,key2=8,valuetype=int
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
</td></tr></table>
<a id="C-style_triple-for_loops"/><h3>C-style triple-for loops</h3>
<p/> These are supported as follows:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small --opprint put '
num suma = 0;
for (a = 1; a &lt;= NR; a += 1) {
suma += a;
}
$suma = suma;
'
a b i x y suma
pan pan 1 0.3467901443380824 0.7268028627434533 1
eks pan 2 0.7586799647899636 0.5221511083334797 3
wye wye 3 0.20460330576630303 0.33831852551664776 6
eks wye 4 0.38139939387114097 0.13418874328430463 10
wye pan 5 0.5732889198020006 0.8636244699032729 15
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small --opprint put '
num suma = 0;
num sumb = 0;
for (num a = 1, num b = 1; a &lt;= NR; a += 1, b *= 2) {
suma += a;
sumb += b;
}
$suma = suma;
$sumb = sumb;
'
a b i x y suma sumb
pan pan 1 0.3467901443380824 0.7268028627434533 1 1
eks pan 2 0.7586799647899636 0.5221511083334797 3 3
wye wye 3 0.20460330576630303 0.33831852551664776 6 7
eks wye 4 0.38139939387114097 0.13418874328430463 10 15
wye pan 5 0.5732889198020006 0.8636244699032729 15 31
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
Notes:
<ul>
<li/> In <code>for (start; continuation; update) { body }</code>, the start,
continuation, and update statements may be empty, single statements, or
multiple comma-separated statements. If the continuation is empty (e.g. <code>for(i=1;;i+=1)</code>) it defaults
to true.
<li/> In particular, you may use <code>$</code>-variables and/or
<code>@</code>-variables in the start, continuation, and/or update steps (as well
as the body, of course).
<li/> The typedecls such as <code>int</code> or <code>num</code> are optional. If a
typedecl is provided (for a local variable), it binds a variable scoped to the
for-loop regardless of whether a same-name variable is present in outer scope.
If a typedecl is not provided, then the variable is scoped to the for-loop if
no same-name variable is present in outer scope, or if a same-name variable is
present in outer scope then it is modified.
<li/> Miller has no <code>++</code> or <code>--</code> operators.
<li/> As with all for/if/while statements in Miller, the curly braces are
required even if the body is a single statement, or empty.
</ul>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Begin/end_blocks"/><h2>Begin/end blocks</h2>
<p/>Miller supports an <code>awk</code>-like <code>begin/end</code> syntax. The
statements in the <code>begin</code> block are executed before any input records
are read; the statements in the <code>end</code> block are executed after the last
input record is read. (If you want to execute some statement at the start of
each file, not at the start of the first file as with <code>begin</code>, you might
use a pattern/action block of the form <code>FNR == 1 { ... }</code>.) All
statements outside of <code>begin</code> or <code>end</code> are, of course, executed
on every input record. Semicolons separate statements inside or outside of
begin/end blocks; semicolons are required between begin/end block bodies and
any subsequent statement. For example:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '
begin { @sum = 0 };
@x_sum += $x;
end { emit @x_sum }
' ../data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
a=zee,b=pan,i=6,x=0.5271261600918548,y=0.49322128674835697
a=eks,b=zee,i=7,x=0.6117840605678454,y=0.1878849191181694
a=zee,b=wye,i=8,x=0.5985540091064224,y=0.976181385699006
a=hat,b=wye,i=9,x=0.03144187646093577,y=0.7495507603507059
a=pan,b=wye,i=10,x=0.5026260055412137,y=0.9526183602969864
x_sum=4.536294
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Since uninitialized out-of-stream variables default to 0 for
addition/substraction and 1 for multiplication when they appear on expression
right-hand sides (as in <code>awk</code>), the above can be written more succinctly
as
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '
@x_sum += $x;
end { emit @x_sum }
' ../data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
a=zee,b=pan,i=6,x=0.5271261600918548,y=0.49322128674835697
a=eks,b=zee,i=7,x=0.6117840605678454,y=0.1878849191181694
a=zee,b=wye,i=8,x=0.5985540091064224,y=0.976181385699006
a=hat,b=wye,i=9,x=0.03144187646093577,y=0.7495507603507059
a=pan,b=wye,i=10,x=0.5026260055412137,y=0.9526183602969864
x_sum=4.536294
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>The <b>put -q</b> option is a shorthand which suppresses printing of each
output record, with only <code>emit</code> statements being output. So to get only
summary outputs, one could write
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '
@x_sum += $x;
end { emit @x_sum }
' ../data/small
x_sum=4.536294
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>We can do similarly with multiple out-of-stream variables:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '
@x_count += 1;
@x_sum += $x;
end {
emit @x_count;
emit @x_sum;
}
' ../data/small
x_count=10
x_sum=4.536294
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
This is of course not much different than
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr stats1 -a count,sum -f x ../data/small
x_count=10,x_sum=4.536294
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Note that it&rsquo;s a syntax error for begin/end blocks to refer to field
names (beginning with <code>$</code>), since these execute outside the context of
input records.
</div>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Output_statements"/><h1>Output statements</h1>
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<p/>You can <b>output</b> variable-values or expressions in <b>five ways</b>:
<ul>
<li/> <b>Assign</b> them to stream-record fields. For example,
<code>$cumulative_sum = @sum</code>. For another example, <code>$nr = NR</code> adds a
field named <code>nr</code> to each output record, containing the value of the
built-in variable <code>NR</code> as of when that record was ingested.
<li/> Use the <b>print</b> or <b>eprint</b> keywords which immediately print an
expression <i>directly to standard output or standard error</i>, respectively.
Note that <code>dump</code>, <code>edump</code>, <code>print</code>, and <code>eprint</code>
don&rsquo;t output records which participate in <code>then</code>-chaining; rather,
they&rsquo;re just immediate prints to stdout/stderr. The <code>printn</code> and
<code>eprintn</code> keywords are the same except that they don&rsquo;t print final
newlines. Additionally, you can print to a specified file instead of
stdout/stderr.
<li/> Use the <b>dump</b> or <b>edump</b> keywords, which <i>immediately print
all out-of-stream variables as a JSON data structure to the standard output or
standard error</i> (respectively).
<li/> Use <b>tee</b> which formats the current stream record (not just an
arbitrary string as with <b>print</b>) to a specific file.
<li/> Use <b>emit</b>/<b>emitp</b>/<b>emitf</b> to send out-of-stream
variables&rsquo; current values to the output record stream, e.g. <code>@sum +=
$x; emit @sum</code> which produces an extra output record such as
<code>sum=3.1648382</code>.
</ul>
<p/>For the first two options you are populating the output-records stream
which feeds into the next verb in a <code>then</code>-chain (if any), or which otherwise
is formatted for output using <code>--o...</code> flags.
<p/>For the last three options you are sending output directly to standard
output, standard error, or a file.
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Print_statements"/><h2>Print statements</h2>
<p/>The <code>print</code> statement is perhaps self-explanatory, but with a few
light caveats:
<ul>
<li/> There are four variants: <code>print</code> goes to stdout with final
newline, <code>printn</code> goes to stdout without final newline (you can include
one using "\n" in your output string), <code>eprint</code> goes to stderr with
final newline, and <code>eprintn</code> goes to stderr without final newline.
<li/> Output goes directly to stdout/stderr, respectively: data produced this
way do not go downstream to the next verb in a <code>then</code>-chain. (Use
<code>emit</code> for that.)
<li/> Print statements are for strings (<code>print "hello"</code>), or things
which can be made into strings: numbers (<code>print 3</code>, <code>print $a +
$b</code>, or concatenations thereof (<code>print "a + b = " . ($a + $b)</code>).
Maps (in <code>$*</code>, map-valued out-of-stream or local variables, and map
literals) aren&rsquo;t convertible into strings. If you print a map, you get
<code>{is-a-map}</code> as output. Please use <code>dump</code> to print maps.
<li/>You can redirect print output to a file:
<code>mlr --from myfile.dat put 'print &gt; "tap.txt", $x'</code>
<code>mlr --from myfile.dat put 'o=$*; print &gt; $a.".txt", $x'</code>.
<li/> See also the <a href="#Redirected-output_statements">section on redirected output</a> for examples.
</ul>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Dump_statements"/><h2>Dump statements</h2>
<p/>The <code>dump</code> statement is for printing expressions, including maps,
directly to stdout/stderr, respectively:
<ul>
<li/> There are two variants: <code>dump</code> prints to stdout; <code>edump</code>
prints to stderr.
<li/> Output goes directly to stdout/stderr, respectively: data produced this
way do not go downstream to the next verb in a <code>then</code>-chain. (Use
<code>emit</code> for that.)
<li/> You can use <code>dump</code> to output single strings, numbers,
or expressions including map-valued data. Map-valued data are printed
as JSON. Miller allows string and integer keys in its map literals while
JSON allows only string keys, so use <code>mlr put --jknquoteint</code> if
you want integer-valued map keys not double-quoted.
<li/> If you use <code>dump</code> (or <code>edump</code>) with no arguments, you get a
JSON structure representing the current values of all out-of-stream variables.
<li/> As with <code>print</code>, you can redirect output to files.
<li/> See also the <a href="#Redirected-output_statements">section on redirected output</a> for examples.
</ul>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Tee_statements"/><h2>Tee statements</h2>
<p/> Records produced by a <code>mlr put</code> go downstream to the next verb in
your <code>then</code>-chain, if any, or otherwise to standard output. If you want
to additionally copy out records to files, you can do that using <code>tee</code>.
<p/>The syntax is, by example, <code>mlr --from myfile.dat put 'tee &gt;
"tap.dat", $*' then sort -n index</code>. First is <code>tee &gt;</code>, then the
filename expression (which can be an expression such as
<code>"tap.".$a.".dat"</code>), then a comma, then <code>$*</code>. (Nothing else but
<code>$*</code> is teeable.)
<p/> See also the <a href="#Redirected-output_statements">section on redirected
output</a> for examples.
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Redirected-output_statements"/><h2>Redirected-output statements</h2>
The <b>print</b>, <b>dump</b> <b>tee</b>, <b>emitf</b>, <b>emit</b>, and
<b>emitp</b> keywords all allow you to redirect output to one or more files or
pipe-to commands. The filenames/commands are strings which can be constructed
using record-dependent values, so you can do things like splitting a table into
multiple files, one for each account ID, and so on.
<p/> Details:
<ul>
<li/> The <code>print</code> and <code>dump</code> keywords produce output immediately
to standard output, or to specified file(s) or pipe-to command if present.
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --help-keyword print
print: prints expression immediately to stdout.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'print "The sum of x and y is ".($x+$y)'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'for (k, v in $*) { print k . " =&gt; " . v }'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '(NR % 1000 == 0) { print &gt; stderr, "Checkpoint ".NR}'
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --help-keyword dump
dump: prints all currently defined out-of-stream variables immediately
to stdout as JSON.
With &gt;, &gt;&gt;, or |, the data do not become part of the output record stream but
are instead redirected.
The &gt; and &gt;&gt; are for write and append, as in the shell, but (as with awk) the
file-overwrite for &gt; is on first write, not per record. The | is for piping to
a process which will process the data. There will be one open file for each
distinct file name (for &gt; and &gt;&gt;) or one subordinate process for each distinct
value of the piped-to command (for |). Output-formatting flags are taken from
the main command line.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q '@v[NR]=$*; end { dump }'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q '@v[NR]=$*; end { dump &gt; "mytap.dat"}'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q '@v[NR]=$*; end { dump &gt;&gt; "mytap.dat"}'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q '@v[NR]=$*; end { dump | "jq .[]"}'
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<li/> <code>mlr put</code> sends the current record (possibly modified by the
<code>put</code> expression) to the output record stream. Records are then input to
the following verb in a <code>then</code>-chain (if any), else printed to standard
output (unless <code>put -q</code>). The <b>tee</b> keyword <i>additionally</i>
writes the output record to specified file(s) or pipe-to command, or
immediately to <code>stdout</code>/<code>stderr</code>.
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --help-keyword tee
tee: prints the current record to specified file.
This is an immediate print to the specified file (except for pprint format
which of course waits until the end of the input stream to format all output).
The &gt; and &gt;&gt; are for write and append, as in the shell, but (as with awk) the
file-overwrite for &gt; is on first write, not per record. The | is for piping to
a process which will process the data. There will be one open file for each
distinct file name (for &gt; and &gt;&gt;) or one subordinate process for each distinct
value of the piped-to command (for |). Output-formatting flags are taken from
the main command line.
You can use any of the output-format command-line flags, e.g. --ocsv, --ofs,
etc., to control the format of the output. See also mlr -h.
emit with redirect and tee with redirect are identical, except tee can only
output $*.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'tee &gt; "/tmp/data-".$a, $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'tee &gt;&gt; "/tmp/data-".$a.$b, $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'tee &gt; stderr, $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'tee | "tr [a-z\] [A-Z\]", $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'tee | "tr [a-z\] [A-Z\] &gt; /tmp/data-".$a, $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q 'tee | "gzip &gt; /tmp/data-".$a.".gz", $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put -q --ojson 'tee | "gzip &gt; /tmp/data-".$a.".gz", $*'
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<li/> <code>mlr put</code>&rsquo;s <code>emitf</code>, <code>emitp</code>, and
<code>emit</code> send out-of-stream variables to the output record stream. These
are then input to the following verb in a <code>then</code>-chain (if any), else
printed to standard output. When redirected with <code>&gt;</code>,
<code>&gt;&gt;</code>, or <code>|</code>, they <i>instead</i> write the out-of-stream
variable(s) to specified file(s) or pipe-to command, or immediately to
<code>stdout</code>/<code>stderr</code>.
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --help-keyword emitf
emitf: inserts non-indexed out-of-stream variable(s) side-by-side into the
output record stream.
With &gt;, &gt;&gt;, or |, the data do not become part of the output record stream but
are instead redirected.
The &gt; and &gt;&gt; are for write and append, as in the shell, but (as with awk) the
file-overwrite for &gt; is on first write, not per record. The | is for piping to
a process which will process the data. There will be one open file for each
distinct file name (for &gt; and &gt;&gt;) or one subordinate process for each distinct
value of the piped-to command (for |). Output-formatting flags are taken from
the main command line.
You can use any of the output-format command-line flags, e.g. --ocsv, --ofs,
etc., to control the format of the output if the output is redirected. See also mlr -h.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf @a'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put --oxtab '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf &gt; "tap-".$i.".dat", @a'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf @a, @b, @c'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf &gt; "mytap.dat", @a, @b, @c'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf &gt;&gt; "mytap.dat", @a, @b, @c'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf &gt; stderr, @a, @b, @c'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf | "grep somepattern", @a, @b, @c'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@a=$i;@b+=$x;@c+=$y; emitf | "grep somepattern &gt; mytap.dat", @a, @b, @c'
Please see http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc for more information.
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --help-keyword emitp
emitp: inserts an out-of-stream variable into the output record stream.
Hashmap indices present in the data but not slotted by emitp arguments are
output concatenated with ":".
With &gt;, &gt;&gt;, or |, the data do not become part of the output record stream but
are instead redirected.
The &gt; and &gt;&gt; are for write and append, as in the shell, but (as with awk) the
file-overwrite for &gt; is on first write, not per record. The | is for piping to
a process which will process the data. There will be one open file for each
distinct file name (for &gt; and &gt;&gt;) or one subordinate process for each distinct
value of the piped-to command (for |). Output-formatting flags are taken from
the main command line.
You can use any of the output-format command-line flags, e.g. --ocsv, --ofs,
etc., to control the format of the output if the output is redirected. See also mlr -h.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp @sums'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put --opprint '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp &gt; "tap-".$a.$b.".dat", @sums'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp @sums, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp &gt; "mytap.dat", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp &gt;&gt; "mytap.dat", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp | "gzip &gt; mytap.dat.gz", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp &gt; stderr, @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emitp | "grep somepattern", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Please see http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc for more information.
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --help-keyword emit
emit: inserts an out-of-stream variable into the output record stream. Hashmap
indices present in the data but not slotted by emit arguments are not output.
With &gt;, &gt;&gt;, or |, the data do not become part of the output record stream but
are instead redirected.
The &gt; and &gt;&gt; are for write and append, as in the shell, but (as with awk) the
file-overwrite for &gt; is on first write, not per record. The | is for piping to
a process which will process the data. There will be one open file for each
distinct file name (for &gt; and &gt;&gt;) or one subordinate process for each distinct
value of the piped-to command (for |). Output-formatting flags are taken from
the main command line.
You can use any of the output-format command-line flags, e.g. --ocsv, --ofs,
etc., to control the format of the output if the output is redirected. See also mlr -h.
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'emit &gt; "/tmp/data-".$a, $*'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put 'emit &gt; "/tmp/data-".$a, mapexcept($*, "a")'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit @sums'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put --ojson '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit &gt; "tap-".$a.$b.".dat", @sums'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit @sums, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit &gt; "mytap.dat", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit &gt;&gt; "mytap.dat", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit | "gzip &gt; mytap.dat.gz", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit &gt; stderr, @*, "index1", "index2"'
Example: mlr --from f.dat put '@sums[$a][$b]+=$x; emit | "grep somepattern", @*, "index1", "index2"'
Please see http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc for more information.
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
</ul>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Emit_statements"/><h2>Emit statements</h2>
<p/>There are three variants: <code>emitf</code>, <code>emit</code>, and
<code>emitp</code>. Keep in mind that out-of-stream variables are a nested,
multi-level hashmap (directly viewable as JSON using <code>dump</code>), whereas
Miller output records are lists of single-level key-value pairs. The three emit
variants allow you to control how the multilevel hashmaps are flatten down to
output records. You can emit any map-valued expression, including <code>$*</code>,
map-valued out-of-stream variables, the entire out-of-stream-variable
collection <code>@*</code>, map-valued local variables, map literals, or map-valued
function return values.
<p/>Use <b>emitf</b> to output several out-of-stream variables side-by-side in the same output record.
For <code>emitf</code> these mustn&rsquo;t have indexing using <code>@name[...]</code>. Example:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@count += 1; @x_sum += $x; @y_sum += $y; end { emitf @count, @x_sum, @y_sum}' data/small
count=5,x_sum=2.264762,y_sum=2.585086
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Use <b>emit</b> to output an out-of-stream variable. If it&rsquo;s non-indexed you&rsquo;ll get a simple key-value pair:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ cat data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum += $x; end { dump }' data/small
{
"sum": 2.264762
}
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum += $x; end { emit @sum }' data/small
sum=2.264762
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>If it&rsquo;s indexed then use as many names after <code>emit</code> as there are indices:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a] += $x; end { dump }' data/small
{
"sum": {
"pan": 0.346790,
"eks": 1.140079,
"wye": 0.777892
}
}
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a] += $x; end { emit @sum, "a" }' data/small
a=pan,sum=0.346790
a=eks,sum=1.140079
a=wye,sum=0.777892
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { dump }' data/small
{
"sum": {
"pan": {
"pan": 0.346790
},
"eks": {
"pan": 0.758680,
"wye": 0.381399
},
"wye": {
"wye": 0.204603,
"pan": 0.573289
}
}
}
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { emit @sum, "a", "b" }' data/small
a=pan,b=pan,sum=0.346790
a=eks,b=pan,sum=0.758680
a=eks,b=wye,sum=0.381399
a=wye,b=wye,sum=0.204603
a=wye,b=pan,sum=0.573289
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a][$b][$i] += $x; end { dump }' data/small
{
"sum": {
"pan": {
"pan": {
"1": 0.346790
}
},
"eks": {
"pan": {
"2": 0.758680
},
"wye": {
"4": 0.381399
}
},
"wye": {
"wye": {
"3": 0.204603
},
"pan": {
"5": 0.573289
}
}
}
}
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a][$b][$i] += $x; end { emit @sum, "a", "b", "i" }' data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,sum=0.346790
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,sum=0.758680
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,sum=0.381399
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,sum=0.204603
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,sum=0.573289
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Now for <b>emitp</b>: if you have as many names following <code>emit</code> as
there are levels in the out-of-stream variable&rsquo;s hashmap, then <code>emit</code> and <code>emitp</code> do the same
thing. Where they differ is when you don&rsquo;t specify as many names as there are hashmap levels. In this
case, Miller needs to flatten multiple map indices down to output-record keys: <code>emitp</code> includes full
prefixing (hence the <code>p</code> in <code>emitp</code>) while <code>emit</code> takes the deepest hashmap key as the
output-record key:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { dump }' data/small
{
"sum": {
"pan": {
"pan": 0.346790
},
"eks": {
"pan": 0.758680,
"wye": 0.381399
},
"wye": {
"wye": 0.204603,
"pan": 0.573289
}
}
}
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { emit @sum, "a" }' data/small
a=pan,pan=0.346790
a=eks,pan=0.758680,wye=0.381399
a=wye,wye=0.204603,pan=0.573289
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { emit @sum }' data/small
pan=0.346790
pan=0.758680,wye=0.381399
wye=0.204603,pan=0.573289
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { emitp @sum, "a" }' data/small
a=pan,sum:pan=0.346790
a=eks,sum:pan=0.758680,sum:wye=0.381399
a=wye,sum:wye=0.204603,sum:pan=0.573289
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { emitp @sum }' data/small
sum:pan:pan=0.346790,sum:eks:pan=0.758680,sum:eks:wye=0.381399,sum:wye:wye=0.204603,sum:wye:pan=0.573289
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --oxtab put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { emitp @sum }' data/small
sum:pan:pan 0.346790
sum:eks:pan 0.758680
sum:eks:wye 0.381399
sum:wye:wye 0.204603
sum:wye:pan 0.573289
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Use <b>--oflatsep</b> to specify the character which joins multilevel
keys for <code>emitp</code> (it defaults to a colon):
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q --oflatsep / '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { emitp @sum, "a" }' data/small
a=pan,sum/pan=0.346790
a=eks,sum/pan=0.758680,sum/wye=0.381399
a=wye,sum/wye=0.204603,sum/pan=0.573289
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q --oflatsep / '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { emitp @sum }' data/small
sum/pan/pan=0.346790,sum/eks/pan=0.758680,sum/eks/wye=0.381399,sum/wye/wye=0.204603,sum/wye/pan=0.573289
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --oxtab put -q --oflatsep / '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { emitp @sum }' data/small
sum/pan/pan 0.346790
sum/eks/pan 0.758680
sum/eks/wye 0.381399
sum/wye/wye 0.204603
sum/wye/pan 0.573289
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Multi-emit_statements"/><h2>Multi-emit statements</h2>
<p/>You can emit <b>multiple map-valued expressions side-by-side</b> by
including their names in parentheses:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/medium --opprint put -q '
@x_count[$a][$b] += 1;
@x_sum[$a][$b] += $x;
end {
for ((a, b), _ in @x_count) {
@x_mean[a][b] = @x_sum[a][b] / @x_count[a][b]
}
emit (@x_sum, @x_count, @x_mean), "a", "b"
}
'
a b x_sum x_count x_mean
pan pan 219.185129 427 0.513314
pan wye 198.432931 395 0.502362
pan eks 216.075228 429 0.503672
pan hat 205.222776 417 0.492141
pan zee 205.097518 413 0.496604
eks pan 179.963030 371 0.485076
eks wye 196.945286 407 0.483895
eks zee 176.880365 357 0.495463
eks eks 215.916097 413 0.522799
eks hat 208.783171 417 0.500679
wye wye 185.295850 377 0.491501
wye pan 195.847900 392 0.499612
wye hat 212.033183 426 0.497730
wye zee 194.774048 385 0.505907
wye eks 204.812961 386 0.530604
zee pan 202.213804 389 0.519830
zee wye 233.991394 455 0.514267
zee eks 190.961778 391 0.488393
zee zee 206.640635 403 0.512756
zee hat 191.300006 409 0.467726
hat wye 208.883010 423 0.493813
hat zee 196.349450 385 0.509999
hat eks 189.006793 389 0.485879
hat hat 182.853532 381 0.479931
hat pan 168.553807 363 0.464336
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
What this does is walk through the first out-of-stream variable
(<code>@x_sum</code> in this example) as usual, then for each keylist found (e.g.
<code>pan,wye</code>), include the values for the remaining out-of-stream variables
(here, <code>@x_count</code> and <code>@x_mean</code>). You should use this when all
out-of-stream variables in the emit statement have <b>the same shape and the same
keylists</b>.
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Emit-all_statements"/><h2>Emit-all statements</h2>
<p/>Use <b>emit all</b> (or <code>emit @*</code> which is synonymous) to output all
out-of-stream variables. You can use the following idiom to get various
accumulators output side-by-side (reminiscent of <code>mlr stats1</code>):
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small --opprint put -q '@v[$a][$b]["sum"] += $x; @v[$a][$b]["count"] += 1; end{emit @*,"a","b"}'
a b sum count
pan pan 0.346790 1
eks pan 0.758680 1
eks wye 0.381399 1
wye wye 0.204603 1
wye pan 0.573289 1
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small --opprint put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; @count[$a][$b] += 1; end{emit @*,"a","b"}'
a b sum
pan pan 0.346790
eks pan 0.758680
eks wye 0.381399
wye wye 0.204603
wye pan 0.573289
a b count
pan pan 1
eks pan 1
eks wye 1
wye wye 1
wye pan 1
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --from data/small --opprint put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; @count[$a][$b] += 1; end{emit (@sum, @count),"a","b"}'
a b sum count
pan pan 0.346790 1
eks pan 0.758680 1
eks wye 0.381399 1
wye wye 0.204603 1
wye pan 0.573289 1
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
</div>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Unset_statements"/><h1>Unset statements</h1>
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<p/>You can clear a map key by assigning the empty string as its value: <code>$x=""</code> or <code>@x=""</code>.
Using <code>unset</code> you can remove the key entirely. Examples:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ cat data/small
a=pan,b=pan,i=1,x=0.3467901443380824,y=0.7268028627434533
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put 'unset $x, $a' data/small
b=pan,i=1,y=0.7268028627434533
b=pan,i=2,y=0.5221511083334797
b=wye,i=3,y=0.33831852551664776
b=wye,i=4,y=0.13418874328430463
b=pan,i=5,y=0.8636244699032729
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>This can also be done, of course, using <code>mlr cut -x</code>. You can also
clear out-of-stream or local variables, at the base name level, or at an
indexed sublevel:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { dump; unset @sum; dump }' data/small
{
"sum": {
"pan": {
"pan": 0.346790
},
"eks": {
"pan": 0.758680,
"wye": 0.381399
},
"wye": {
"wye": 0.204603,
"pan": 0.573289
}
}
}
{
}
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { dump; unset @sum["eks"]; dump }' data/small
{
"sum": {
"pan": {
"pan": 0.346790
},
"eks": {
"pan": 0.758680,
"wye": 0.381399
},
"wye": {
"wye": 0.204603,
"pan": 0.573289
}
}
}
{
"sum": {
"pan": {
"pan": 0.346790
},
"wye": {
"wye": 0.204603,
"pan": 0.573289
}
}
}
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>If you use <code>unset all</code> (or <code>unset @*</code> which is synonymous), that will unset all out-of-stream
variables which have been defined up to that point.
</div>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Filter_statements"/><h1>Filter statements</h1>
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<div id="body_section_toggle_filter_statements" style="display: block">
<p/> You can use <code>filter</code> within <code>put</code>. In fact, the
following two are synonymous:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr filter 'NR==2 || NR==3' data/small
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put 'filter NR==2 || NR==3' data/small
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>The former, of course, is much easier to type. But the latter allows you to define more complex expressions
for the filter, and/or do other things in addition to the filter:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '@running_sum += $x; filter @running_sum &gt; 1.3' data/small
a=wye,b=wye,i=3,x=0.20460330576630303,y=0.33831852551664776
a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.38139939387114097,y=0.13418874328430463
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr put '$z = $x * $y; filter $z &gt; 0.3' data/small
a=eks,b=pan,i=2,x=0.7586799647899636,y=0.5221511083334797,z=0.396146
a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.5732889198020006,y=0.8636244699032729,z=0.495106
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
</div>
<!-- ================================================================ -->
<a id="Built-in_functions_for_filter_and_put,_summary"/><h1>Built-in functions for filter and put, summary</h1>
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<table border=1>
<tr class="mlrbg">
<th>Name</th> <th>Class</th> <th>#Args</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#+">+</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#+">+</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#-">-</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#-">-</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#*">*</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#/">/</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#//">//</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#.+">.+</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#.+">.+</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#.-">.-</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#.-">.-</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#.*">.*</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#./">./</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#.//">.//</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#%">%</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#**">**</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#|">|</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#^">^</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#&">&</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#~">~</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#<<"><<</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#>>">>></a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#bitcount">bitcount</a></td> <td>arithmetic</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#==">==</a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#!=">!=</a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#=~">=~</a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#!=~">!=~</a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#>">></a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#>=">>=</a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#<"><</a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#<="><=</a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#&&">&&</a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#||">||</a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#^^">^^</a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#!">!</a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#? :">? :</a></td> <td>boolean</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#.">.</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#gsub">gsub</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#regextract">regextract</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#regextract_or_else">regextract_or_else</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#strlen">strlen</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sub">sub</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#ssub">ssub</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#substr">substr</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#tolower">tolower</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#toupper">toupper</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#capitalize">capitalize</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#lstrip">lstrip</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#rstrip">rstrip</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#strip">strip</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#collapse_whitespace">collapse_whitespace</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#clean_whitespace">clean_whitespace</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#system">system</a></td> <td>string</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#abs">abs</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#acos">acos</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#acosh">acosh</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asin">asin</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asinh">asinh</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#atan">atan</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#atan2">atan2</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#atanh">atanh</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#cbrt">cbrt</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#ceil">ceil</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#cos">cos</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#cosh">cosh</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#erf">erf</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#erfc">erfc</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#exp">exp</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#expm1">expm1</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#floor">floor</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#invqnorm">invqnorm</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#log">log</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#log10">log10</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#log1p">log1p</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#logifit">logifit</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#madd">madd</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#max">max</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>variadic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#mexp">mexp</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#min">min</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>variadic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#mmul">mmul</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#msub">msub</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#pow">pow</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#qnorm">qnorm</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#round">round</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#roundm">roundm</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sgn">sgn</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sin">sin</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sinh">sinh</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sqrt">sqrt</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#tan">tan</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#tanh">tanh</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#urand">urand</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#urandrange">urandrange</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#urand32">urand32</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#urandint">urandint</a></td> <td>math</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#dhms2fsec">dhms2fsec</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#dhms2sec">dhms2sec</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#fsec2dhms">fsec2dhms</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#fsec2hms">fsec2hms</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#gmt2sec">gmt2sec</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#localtime2sec">localtime2sec</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#hms2fsec">hms2fsec</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#hms2sec">hms2sec</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sec2dhms">sec2dhms</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sec2gmt">sec2gmt</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sec2gmt">sec2gmt</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sec2gmtdate">sec2gmtdate</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sec2localtime">sec2localtime</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sec2localtime">sec2localtime</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sec2localdate">sec2localdate</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sec2hms">sec2hms</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#strftime">strftime</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#strftime_local">strftime_local</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#strptime">strptime</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#strptime_local">strptime_local</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#systime">systime</a></td> <td>time</td> <td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_absent">is_absent</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_bool">is_bool</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_boolean">is_boolean</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_empty">is_empty</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_empty_map">is_empty_map</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_float">is_float</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_int">is_int</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_map">is_map</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_nonempty_map">is_nonempty_map</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_not_empty">is_not_empty</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_not_map">is_not_map</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_not_null">is_not_null</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_null">is_null</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_numeric">is_numeric</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_present">is_present</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#is_string">is_string</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_absent">asserting_absent</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_bool">asserting_bool</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_boolean">asserting_boolean</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_empty">asserting_empty</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_empty_map">asserting_empty_map</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_float">asserting_float</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_int">asserting_int</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_map">asserting_map</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_nonempty_map">asserting_nonempty_map</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_not_empty">asserting_not_empty</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_not_map">asserting_not_map</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_not_null">asserting_not_null</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_null">asserting_null</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_numeric">asserting_numeric</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_present">asserting_present</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#asserting_string">asserting_string</a></td> <td>typing</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#boolean">boolean</a></td> <td>conversion</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#float">float</a></td> <td>conversion</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#fmtnum">fmtnum</a></td> <td>conversion</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#hexfmt">hexfmt</a></td> <td>conversion</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#int">int</a></td> <td>conversion</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#string">string</a></td> <td>conversion</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#typeof">typeof</a></td> <td>conversion</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#depth">depth</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#haskey">haskey</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#joink">joink</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#joinkv">joinkv</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#joinv">joinv</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#leafcount">leafcount</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#length">length</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#mapdiff">mapdiff</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>variadic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#mapexcept">mapexcept</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>variadic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#mapselect">mapselect</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>variadic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#mapsum">mapsum</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>variadic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#splitkv">splitkv</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#splitkvx">splitkvx</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#splitnv">splitnv</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#splitnvx">splitnvx</a></td> <td>maps</td> <td>2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
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<p/>Each function takes a specific number of arguments, as shown below, except
for functions marked as variadic such as <code>min</code> and <code>max</code>. (The
latter compute min and max of any number of numerical arguments.) There is no
notion of optional or default-on-absent arguments. All argument-passing is
positional rather than by name; arguments are passed by value, not by
reference.
<p/>You can get a list of all functions using <b>mlr -F</b>.
<a id="+"/>
<h2>+</h2>
<p/>
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<pre>
+ (class=arithmetic #args=2): Addition.
+ (class=arithmetic #args=1): Unary plus.
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<a id="-"/>
<h2>-</h2>
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- (class=arithmetic #args=2): Subtraction.
- (class=arithmetic #args=1): Unary minus.
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<a id="*"/>
<h2>*</h2>
<p/>
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<pre>
* (class=arithmetic #args=2): Multiplication.
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<a id="/"/>
<h2>/</h2>
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<pre>
/ (class=arithmetic #args=2): Division.
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<a id="//"/>
<h2>//</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
// (class=arithmetic #args=2): Integer division: rounds to negative (pythonic).
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<a id=".+"/>
<h2>.+</h2>
<p/>
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<pre>
.+ (class=arithmetic #args=2): Addition, with integer-to-integer overflow
.+ (class=arithmetic #args=1): Unary plus, with integer-to-integer overflow.
</pre>
</div>
<a id=".-"/>
<h2>.-</h2>
<p/>
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<pre>
.- (class=arithmetic #args=2): Subtraction, with integer-to-integer overflow.
.- (class=arithmetic #args=1): Unary minus, with integer-to-integer overflow.
</pre>
</div>
<a id=".*"/>
<h2>.*</h2>
<p/>
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<pre>
.* (class=arithmetic #args=2): Multiplication, with integer-to-integer overflow.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="./"/>
<h2>./</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
./ (class=arithmetic #args=2): Division, with integer-to-integer overflow.
</pre>
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<a id=".//"/>
<h2>.//</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
.// (class=arithmetic #args=2): Integer division: rounds to negative (pythonic), with integer-to-integer overflow.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="%"/>
<h2>%</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
% (class=arithmetic #args=2): Remainder; never negative-valued (pythonic).
</pre>
</div>
<a id="**"/>
<h2>**</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
** (class=arithmetic #args=2): Exponentiation; same as pow, but as an infix
operator.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="|"/>
<h2>|</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
| (class=arithmetic #args=2): Bitwise OR.
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<h2>^</h2>
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<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
^ (class=arithmetic #args=2): Bitwise XOR.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="&"/>
<h2>&</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
& (class=arithmetic #args=2): Bitwise AND.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="~"/>
<h2>~</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
~ (class=arithmetic #args=1): Bitwise NOT. Beware '$y=~$x' since =~ is the
regex-match operator: try '$y = ~$x'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="<<"/>
<h2><<</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
<< (class=arithmetic #args=2): Bitwise left-shift.
</pre>
</div>
<a id=">>"/>
<h2>>></h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
>> (class=arithmetic #args=2): Bitwise right-shift.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="=="/>
<h2>==</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
== (class=boolean #args=2): String/numeric equality. Mixing number and string
results in string compare.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="!="/>
<h2>!=</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
!= (class=boolean #args=2): String/numeric inequality. Mixing number and string
results in string compare.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="=~"/>
<h2>=~</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
=~ (class=boolean #args=2): String (left-hand side) matches regex (right-hand
side), e.g. '$name =~ "^a.*b$"'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="!=~"/>
<h2>!=~</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
!=~ (class=boolean #args=2): String (left-hand side) does not match regex
(right-hand side), e.g. '$name !=~ "^a.*b$"'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id=">"/>
<h2>></h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
> (class=boolean #args=2): String/numeric greater-than. Mixing number and string
results in string compare.
</pre>
</div>
<a id=">="/>
<h2>>=</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
>= (class=boolean #args=2): String/numeric greater-than-or-equals. Mixing number
and string results in string compare.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="<"/>
<h2><</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
< (class=boolean #args=2): String/numeric less-than. Mixing number and string
results in string compare.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="<="/>
<h2><=</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
<= (class=boolean #args=2): String/numeric less-than-or-equals. Mixing number
and string results in string compare.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="&&"/>
<h2>&&</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
&& (class=boolean #args=2): Logical AND.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="||"/>
<h2>||</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
|| (class=boolean #args=2): Logical OR.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="^^"/>
<h2>^^</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
^^ (class=boolean #args=2): Logical XOR.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="!"/>
<h2>!</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
! (class=boolean #args=1): Logical negation.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="? :"/>
<h2>? :</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
? : (class=boolean #args=3): Ternary operator.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="."/>
<h2>.</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
. (class=string #args=2): String concatenation.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="abs"/>
<h2>abs</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
abs (class=math #args=1): Absolute value.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="acos"/>
<h2>acos</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
acos (class=math #args=1): Inverse trigonometric cosine.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="acosh"/>
<h2>acosh</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
acosh (class=math #args=1): Inverse hyperbolic cosine.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asin"/>
<h2>asin</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asin (class=math #args=1): Inverse trigonometric sine.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asinh"/>
<h2>asinh</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asinh (class=math #args=1): Inverse hyperbolic sine.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_absent"/>
<h2>asserting_absent</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_absent (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is absent in the input data, else
throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_bool"/>
<h2>asserting_bool</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_bool (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is present with boolean value, else
throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_boolean"/>
<h2>asserting_boolean</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_boolean (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is present with boolean value, else
throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_empty"/>
<h2>asserting_empty</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_empty (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is present in input with empty value,
else throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_empty_map"/>
<h2>asserting_empty_map</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_empty_map (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is a map with empty value, else
throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_float"/>
<h2>asserting_float</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_float (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is present with float value, else
throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_int"/>
<h2>asserting_int</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_int (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is present with int value, else
throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_map"/>
<h2>asserting_map</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_map (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is a map, else throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_nonempty_map"/>
<h2>asserting_nonempty_map</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_nonempty_map (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is a non-empty map, else throws
an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_not_empty"/>
<h2>asserting_not_empty</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_not_empty (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is present in input with non-empty
value, else throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_not_map"/>
<h2>asserting_not_map</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_not_map (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is not a map, else throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_not_null"/>
<h2>asserting_not_null</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_not_null (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is non-null (non-empty and non-absent),
else throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_null"/>
<h2>asserting_null</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_null (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is null (empty or absent), else throws
an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_numeric"/>
<h2>asserting_numeric</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_numeric (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is present with int or float value,
else throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_present"/>
<h2>asserting_present</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_present (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is present in input, else throws
an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="asserting_string"/>
<h2>asserting_string</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
asserting_string (class=typing #args=1): Returns argument if it is present with string (including
empty-string) value, else throws an error.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="atan"/>
<h2>atan</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
atan (class=math #args=1): One-argument arctangent.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="atan2"/>
<h2>atan2</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
atan2 (class=math #args=2): Two-argument arctangent.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="atanh"/>
<h2>atanh</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
atanh (class=math #args=1): Inverse hyperbolic tangent.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="bitcount"/>
<h2>bitcount</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
bitcount (class=arithmetic #args=1): Count of 1-bits
</pre>
</div>
<a id="boolean"/>
<h2>boolean</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
boolean (class=conversion #args=1): Convert int/float/bool/string to boolean.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="capitalize"/>
<h2>capitalize</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
capitalize (class=string #args=1): Convert string's first character to uppercase.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="cbrt"/>
<h2>cbrt</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
cbrt (class=math #args=1): Cube root.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="ceil"/>
<h2>ceil</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
ceil (class=math #args=1): Ceiling: nearest integer at or above.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="clean_whitespace"/>
<h2>clean_whitespace</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
clean_whitespace (class=string #args=1): Same as collapse_whitespace and strip.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="collapse_whitespace"/>
<h2>collapse_whitespace</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
collapse_whitespace (class=string #args=1): Strip repeated whitespace from string.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="cos"/>
<h2>cos</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
cos (class=math #args=1): Trigonometric cosine.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="cosh"/>
<h2>cosh</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
cosh (class=math #args=1): Hyperbolic cosine.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="depth"/>
<h2>depth</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
depth (class=maps #args=1): Prints maximum depth of hashmap: ''. Scalars have depth 0.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="dhms2fsec"/>
<h2>dhms2fsec</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
dhms2fsec (class=time #args=1): Recovers floating-point seconds as in
dhms2fsec("5d18h53m20.250000s") = 500000.250000
</pre>
</div>
<a id="dhms2sec"/>
<h2>dhms2sec</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
dhms2sec (class=time #args=1): Recovers integer seconds as in
dhms2sec("5d18h53m20s") = 500000
</pre>
</div>
<a id="erf"/>
<h2>erf</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
erf (class=math #args=1): Error function.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="erfc"/>
<h2>erfc</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
erfc (class=math #args=1): Complementary error function.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="exp"/>
<h2>exp</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
exp (class=math #args=1): Exponential function e**x.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="expm1"/>
<h2>expm1</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
expm1 (class=math #args=1): e**x - 1.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="float"/>
<h2>float</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
float (class=conversion #args=1): Convert int/float/bool/string to float.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="floor"/>
<h2>floor</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
floor (class=math #args=1): Floor: nearest integer at or below.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="fmtnum"/>
<h2>fmtnum</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
fmtnum (class=conversion #args=2): Convert int/float/bool to string using
printf-style format string, e.g. '$s = fmtnum($n, "%06lld")'. WARNING: Miller numbers
are all long long or double. If you use formats like %d or %f, behavior is undefined.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="fsec2dhms"/>
<h2>fsec2dhms</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
fsec2dhms (class=time #args=1): Formats floating-point seconds as in
fsec2dhms(500000.25) = "5d18h53m20.250000s"
</pre>
</div>
<a id="fsec2hms"/>
<h2>fsec2hms</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
fsec2hms (class=time #args=1): Formats floating-point seconds as in
fsec2hms(5000.25) = "01:23:20.250000"
</pre>
</div>
<a id="gmt2sec"/>
<h2>gmt2sec</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
gmt2sec (class=time #args=1): Parses GMT timestamp as integer seconds since
the epoch.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="gsub"/>
<h2>gsub</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
gsub (class=string #args=3): Example: '$name=gsub($name, "old", "new")'
(replace all).
</pre>
</div>
<a id="haskey"/>
<h2>haskey</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
haskey (class=maps #args=2): True/false if map has/hasn't key, e.g. 'haskey($*, "a")' or
'haskey(mymap, mykey)'. Error if 1st argument is not a map.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="hexfmt"/>
<h2>hexfmt</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
hexfmt (class=conversion #args=1): Convert int to string, e.g. 255 to "0xff".
</pre>
</div>
<a id="hms2fsec"/>
<h2>hms2fsec</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
hms2fsec (class=time #args=1): Recovers floating-point seconds as in
hms2fsec("01:23:20.250000") = 5000.250000
</pre>
</div>
<a id="hms2sec"/>
<h2>hms2sec</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
hms2sec (class=time #args=1): Recovers integer seconds as in
hms2sec("01:23:20") = 5000
</pre>
</div>
<a id="int"/>
<h2>int</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
int (class=conversion #args=1): Convert int/float/bool/string to int.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="invqnorm"/>
<h2>invqnorm</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
invqnorm (class=math #args=1): Inverse of normal cumulative distribution
function. Note that invqorm(urand()) is normally distributed.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_absent"/>
<h2>is_absent</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_absent (class=typing #args=1): False if field is present in input, true otherwise
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_bool"/>
<h2>is_bool</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_bool (class=typing #args=1): True if field is present with boolean value. Synonymous with is_boolean.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_boolean"/>
<h2>is_boolean</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_boolean (class=typing #args=1): True if field is present with boolean value. Synonymous with is_bool.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_empty"/>
<h2>is_empty</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_empty (class=typing #args=1): True if field is present in input with empty string value, false otherwise.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_empty_map"/>
<h2>is_empty_map</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_empty_map (class=typing #args=1): True if argument is a map which is empty.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_float"/>
<h2>is_float</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_float (class=typing #args=1): True if field is present with value inferred to be float
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_int"/>
<h2>is_int</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_int (class=typing #args=1): True if field is present with value inferred to be int
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_map"/>
<h2>is_map</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_map (class=typing #args=1): True if argument is a map.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_nonempty_map"/>
<h2>is_nonempty_map</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_nonempty_map (class=typing #args=1): True if argument is a map which is non-empty.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_not_empty"/>
<h2>is_not_empty</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_not_empty (class=typing #args=1): False if field is present in input with empty value, true otherwise
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_not_map"/>
<h2>is_not_map</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_not_map (class=typing #args=1): True if argument is not a map.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_not_null"/>
<h2>is_not_null</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_not_null (class=typing #args=1): False if argument is null (empty or absent), true otherwise.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_null"/>
<h2>is_null</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_null (class=typing #args=1): True if argument is null (empty or absent), false otherwise.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_numeric"/>
<h2>is_numeric</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_numeric (class=typing #args=1): True if field is present with value inferred to be int or float
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_present"/>
<h2>is_present</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_present (class=typing #args=1): True if field is present in input, false otherwise.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="is_string"/>
<h2>is_string</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
is_string (class=typing #args=1): True if field is present with string (including empty-string) value
</pre>
</div>
<a id="joink"/>
<h2>joink</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
joink (class=maps #args=2): Makes string from map keys. E.g. 'joink($*, ",")'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="joinkv"/>
<h2>joinkv</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
joinkv (class=maps #args=3): Makes string from map key-value pairs. E.g. 'joinkv(@v[2], "=", ",")'
</pre>
</div>
<a id="joinv"/>
<h2>joinv</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
joinv (class=maps #args=2): Makes string from map keys. E.g. 'joinv(mymap, ",")'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="leafcount"/>
<h2>leafcount</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
leafcount (class=maps #args=1): Counts total number of terminal values in hashmap. For single-level maps,
same as length.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="length"/>
<h2>length</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
length (class=maps #args=1): Counts number of top-level entries in hashmap. Scalars have length 1.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="localtime2sec"/>
<h2>localtime2sec</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
localtime2sec (class=time #args=1): Parses local timestamp as integer seconds since
the epoch. Consults $TZ environment variable.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="log"/>
<h2>log</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
log (class=math #args=1): Natural (base-e) logarithm.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="log10"/>
<h2>log10</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
log10 (class=math #args=1): Base-10 logarithm.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="log1p"/>
<h2>log1p</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
log1p (class=math #args=1): log(1-x).
</pre>
</div>
<a id="logifit"/>
<h2>logifit</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
logifit (class=math #args=3): Given m and b from logistic regression, compute
fit: $yhat=logifit($x,$m,$b).
</pre>
</div>
<a id="lstrip"/>
<h2>lstrip</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
lstrip (class=string #args=1): Strip leading whitespace from string.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="madd"/>
<h2>madd</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
madd (class=math #args=3): a + b mod m (integers)
</pre>
</div>
<a id="mapdiff"/>
<h2>mapdiff</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mapdiff (class=maps variadic): With 0 args, returns empty map. With 1 arg, returns copy of arg.
With 2 or more, returns copy of arg 1 with all keys from any of remaining argument maps removed.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="mapexcept"/>
<h2>mapexcept</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mapexcept (class=maps variadic): Returns a map with keys from remaining arguments, if any, unset.
E.g. 'mapexcept({1:2,3:4,5:6}, 1, 5, 7)' is '{3:4}'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="mapselect"/>
<h2>mapselect</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mapselect (class=maps variadic): Returns a map with only keys from remaining arguments set.
E.g. 'mapselect({1:2,3:4,5:6}, 1, 5, 7)' is '{1:2,5:6}'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="mapsum"/>
<h2>mapsum</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mapsum (class=maps variadic): With 0 args, returns empty map. With >= 1 arg, returns a map with
key-value pairs from all arguments. Rightmost collisions win, e.g. 'mapsum({1:2,3:4},{1:5})' is '{1:5,3:4}'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="max"/>
<h2>max</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
max (class=math variadic): max of n numbers; null loses
</pre>
</div>
<a id="mexp"/>
<h2>mexp</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mexp (class=math #args=3): a ** b mod m (integers)
</pre>
</div>
<a id="min"/>
<h2>min</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
min (class=math variadic): Min of n numbers; null loses
</pre>
</div>
<a id="mmul"/>
<h2>mmul</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
mmul (class=math #args=3): a * b mod m (integers)
</pre>
</div>
<a id="msub"/>
<h2>msub</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
msub (class=math #args=3): a - b mod m (integers)
</pre>
</div>
<a id="pow"/>
<h2>pow</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
pow (class=math #args=2): Exponentiation; same as **.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="qnorm"/>
<h2>qnorm</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
qnorm (class=math #args=1): Normal cumulative distribution function.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="regextract"/>
<h2>regextract</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
regextract (class=string #args=2): Example: '$name=regextract($name, "[A-Z]{3}[0-9]{2}")'
.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="regextract_or_else"/>
<h2>regextract_or_else</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
regextract_or_else (class=string #args=3): Example: '$name=regextract_or_else($name, "[A-Z]{3}[0-9]{2}", "default")'
.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="round"/>
<h2>round</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
round (class=math #args=1): Round to nearest integer.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="roundm"/>
<h2>roundm</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
roundm (class=math #args=2): Round to nearest multiple of m: roundm($x,$m) is
the same as round($x/$m)*$m
</pre>
</div>
<a id="rstrip"/>
<h2>rstrip</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
rstrip (class=string #args=1): Strip trailing whitespace from string.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="sec2dhms"/>
<h2>sec2dhms</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
sec2dhms (class=time #args=1): Formats integer seconds as in sec2dhms(500000)
= "5d18h53m20s"
</pre>
</div>
<a id="sec2gmt"/>
<h2>sec2gmt</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
sec2gmt (class=time #args=1): Formats seconds since epoch (integer part)
as GMT timestamp, e.g. sec2gmt(1440768801.7) = "2015-08-28T13:33:21Z".
Leaves non-numbers as-is.
sec2gmt (class=time #args=2): Formats seconds since epoch as GMT timestamp with n
decimal places for seconds, e.g. sec2gmt(1440768801.7,1) = "2015-08-28T13:33:21.7Z".
Leaves non-numbers as-is.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="sec2gmtdate"/>
<h2>sec2gmtdate</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
sec2gmtdate (class=time #args=1): Formats seconds since epoch (integer part)
as GMT timestamp with year-month-date, e.g. sec2gmtdate(1440768801.7) = "2015-08-28".
Leaves non-numbers as-is.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="sec2hms"/>
<h2>sec2hms</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
sec2hms (class=time #args=1): Formats integer seconds as in
sec2hms(5000) = "01:23:20"
</pre>
</div>
<a id="sec2localdate"/>
<h2>sec2localdate</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
sec2localdate (class=time #args=1): Formats seconds since epoch (integer part)
as local timestamp with year-month-date, e.g. sec2localdate(1440768801.7) = "2015-08-28".
Consults $TZ environment variable. Leaves non-numbers as-is.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="sec2localtime"/>
<h2>sec2localtime</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
sec2localtime (class=time #args=1): Formats seconds since epoch (integer part)
as local timestamp, e.g. sec2localtime(1440768801.7) = "2015-08-28T13:33:21Z".
Consults $TZ environment variable. Leaves non-numbers as-is.
sec2localtime (class=time #args=2): Formats seconds since epoch as local timestamp with n
decimal places for seconds, e.g. sec2localtime(1440768801.7,1) = "2015-08-28T13:33:21.7Z".
Consults $TZ environment variable. Leaves non-numbers as-is.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="sgn"/>
<h2>sgn</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
sgn (class=math #args=1): +1 for positive input, 0 for zero input, -1 for
negative input.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="sin"/>
<h2>sin</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
sin (class=math #args=1): Trigonometric sine.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="sinh"/>
<h2>sinh</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
sinh (class=math #args=1): Hyperbolic sine.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="splitkv"/>
<h2>splitkv</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
splitkv (class=maps #args=3): Splits string by separators into map with type inference.
E.g. 'splitkv("a=1,b=2,c=3", "=", ",")' gives '{"a" : 1, "b" : 2, "c" : 3}'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="splitkvx"/>
<h2>splitkvx</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
splitkvx (class=maps #args=3): Splits string by separators into map without type inference (keys and
values are strings). E.g. 'splitkv("a=1,b=2,c=3", "=", ",")' gives
'{"a" : "1", "b" : "2", "c" : "3"}'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="splitnv"/>
<h2>splitnv</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
splitnv (class=maps #args=2): Splits string by separator into integer-indexed map with type inference.
E.g. 'splitnv("a,b,c" , ",")' gives '{1 : "a", 2 : "b", 3 : "c"}'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="splitnvx"/>
<h2>splitnvx</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
splitnvx (class=maps #args=2): Splits string by separator into integer-indexed map without type
inference (values are strings). E.g. 'splitnv("4,5,6" , ",")' gives '{1 : "4", 2 : "5", 3 : "6"}'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="sqrt"/>
<h2>sqrt</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
sqrt (class=math #args=1): Square root.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="ssub"/>
<h2>ssub</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
ssub (class=string #args=3): Like sub but does no regexing. No characters are special.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="strftime"/>
<h2>strftime</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
strftime (class=time #args=2): Formats seconds since the epoch as timestamp, e.g.
strftime(1440768801.7,"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ") = "2015-08-28T13:33:21Z", and
strftime(1440768801.7,"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%3SZ") = "2015-08-28T13:33:21.700Z".
Format strings are as in the C library (please see "man strftime" on your system),
with the Miller-specific addition of "%1S" through "%9S" which format the seconds
with 1 through 9 decimal places, respectively. ("%S" uses no decimal places.)
See also strftime_local.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="strftime_local"/>
<h2>strftime_local</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
strftime_local (class=time #args=2): Like strftime but consults the $TZ environment variable to get local time zone.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="string"/>
<h2>string</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
string (class=conversion #args=1): Convert int/float/bool/string to string.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="strip"/>
<h2>strip</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
strip (class=string #args=1): Strip leading and trailing whitespace from string.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="strlen"/>
<h2>strlen</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
strlen (class=string #args=1): String length.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="strptime"/>
<h2>strptime</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
strptime (class=time #args=2): Parses timestamp as floating-point seconds since the epoch,
e.g. strptime("2015-08-28T13:33:21Z","%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ") = 1440768801.000000,
and strptime("2015-08-28T13:33:21.345Z","%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ") = 1440768801.345000.
See also strptime_local.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="strptime_local"/>
<h2>strptime_local</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
strptime_local (class=time #args=2): Like strptime, but consults $TZ environment variable to find and use local timezone.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="sub"/>
<h2>sub</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
sub (class=string #args=3): Example: '$name=sub($name, "old", "new")'
(replace once).
</pre>
</div>
<a id="substr"/>
<h2>substr</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
substr (class=string #args=3): substr(s,m,n) gives substring of s from 0-up position m to n
inclusive. Negative indices -len .. -1 alias to 0 .. len-1.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="system"/>
<h2>system</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
system (class=string #args=1): Run command string, yielding its stdout minus final carriage return.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="systime"/>
<h2>systime</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
systime (class=time #args=0): Floating-point seconds since the epoch,
e.g. 1440768801.748936.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="tan"/>
<h2>tan</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
tan (class=math #args=1): Trigonometric tangent.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="tanh"/>
<h2>tanh</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
tanh (class=math #args=1): Hyperbolic tangent.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="tolower"/>
<h2>tolower</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
tolower (class=string #args=1): Convert string to lowercase.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="toupper"/>
<h2>toupper</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
toupper (class=string #args=1): Convert string to uppercase.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="typeof"/>
<h2>typeof</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
typeof (class=conversion #args=1): Convert argument to type of argument (e.g.
MT_STRING). For debug.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="urand"/>
<h2>urand</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
urand (class=math #args=0): Floating-point numbers uniformly distributed on the unit interval.
Int-valued example: '$n=floor(20+urand()*11)'.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="urand32"/>
<h2>urand32</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
urand32 (class=math #args=0): Integer uniformly distributed 0 and 2**32-1
inclusive.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="urandint"/>
<h2>urandint</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
urandint (class=math #args=2): Integer uniformly distributed between inclusive
integer endpoints.
</pre>
</div>
<a id="urandrange"/>
<h2>urandrange</h2>
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
urandrange (class=math #args=2): Floating-point numbers uniformly distributed on the interval [a, b).
</pre>
</div>
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<p/> As of Miller 5.0.0 you can define your own functions, as well as subroutines.
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<a id="User-defined_functions"/><h2>User-defined functions</h2>
<p/>Here&rsquo;s the obligatory example of a recursive function to compute the factorial function:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --opprint --from data/small put '
func f(n) {
if (is_numeric(n)) {
if (n &gt; 0) {
return n * f(n-1);
} else {
return 1;
}
}
# implicitly return absent-null if non-numeric
}
$ox = f($x + NR);
$oi = f($i);
'
a b i x y ox oi
pan pan 1 0.3467901443380824 0.7268028627434533 0.467054 1
eks pan 2 0.7586799647899636 0.5221511083334797 3.680838 2
wye wye 3 0.20460330576630303 0.33831852551664776 1.741251 6
eks wye 4 0.38139939387114097 0.13418874328430463 18.588349 24
wye pan 5 0.5732889198020006 0.8636244699032729 211.387310 120
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Properties of user-defined functions:
<ul>
<li/> Function bodies start with <code>func</code> and a parameter list, defined
outside of <code>begin</code>, <code>end</code>, or other <code>func</code> or
<code>subr</code> blocks. (I.e. the Miller DSL has no nested functions.)
<li/> A function (uniqified by its name) may not be redefined: either by
redefining a user-defined function, or by redefining a built-in function.
However, functions and subroutines have separate namespaces: you can define a
subroutine <code>log</code> which does not clash with the mathematical <code>log</code>
function.
<li/> Functions may be defined either before or after use (there is an
object-binding/linkage step at startup). More specifically, functions may be
either recursive or mutually recursive. Functions may not call subroutines.
<li/> Functions may be defined and called either within <code>mlr put</code> or
<code>mlr put</code>.
<li/> Functions have read access to <code>$</code>-variables and
<code>@</code>-variables but may not modify them.
See also
<a href="cookbook.html#Memoization_with_out-of-stream_variables">this cookbook item</a> for an example.
<li/> Argument values may be reassigned: they are not read-only.
<li/> When a return value is not implicitly returned, this results in a return
value of absent-null. (In the example above, if there were records for which
the argument to <code>f</code> is non-numeric, the assignments would be skipped.)
See also the section on
<a href="#Null_data:_empty_and_absent">empty_and_absent null data</a>.
<li/> See the section on <a href="#Local_variables">local variables</a> for
information on scope and extent of arguments, as well as for information on the
use of local variables within functions.
<li/> See the section on <a href="#Expressions_from_files">expressions from
files</a> for information on the use of <code>-f</code> and <code>-e</code> flags.
</ul>
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<a id="User-defined_subroutines"/><h2>User-defined subroutines</h2>
<p/>Example:
<p/>
<div class="pokipanel">
<pre>
$ mlr --opprint --from data/small put -q '
begin {
@call_count = 0;
}
subr s(n) {
@call_count += 1;
if (is_numeric(n)) {
if (n &gt; 1) {
call s(n-1);
} else {
print "numcalls=" . @call_count;
}
}
}
print "NR=" . NR;
call s(NR);
'
NR=1
numcalls=1
NR=2
numcalls=3
NR=3
numcalls=6
NR=4
numcalls=10
NR=5
numcalls=15
</pre>
</div>
<p/>
<p/>Properties of user-defined subroutines:
<ul>
<li/> Subroutine bodies start with <code>subr</code> and a parameter list, defined
outside of <code>begin</code>, <code>end</code>, or other <code>func</code> or
<code>subr</code> blocks. (I.e. the Miller DSL has no nested subroutines.)
<li/> A subroutine (uniqified by its name) may not be redefined.
However, functions and subroutines have separate namespaces: you can define a
subroutine <code>log</code> which does not clash with the mathematical <code>log</code>
function.
<li/> Subroutines may be defined either before or after use (there is an
object-binding/linkage step at startup). More specifically, subroutines may be
either recursive or mutually recursive. Subroutines may call functions.
<li/> Subroutines may be defined and called either within <code>mlr put</code> or
<code>mlr put</code>.
<li/> Subroutines have read/write access to <code>$</code>-variables and
<code>@</code>-variables.
<li/> Argument values may be reassigned: they are not read-only.
<li/> See the section on <a href="#Local_variables">local variables</a> for
information on scope and extent of arguments, as well as for information on the
use of local variables within functions.
<li/> See the section on <a href="#Expressions_from_files">expressions from
files</a> for information on the use of <code>-f</code> and <code>-e</code> flags.
</ul>
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<a id="Errors_and_transparency"/><h1>Errors and transparency</h1>
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<p/>As soon as you have a programming language, you start having the problem
<i>What is my code doing, and why?</i> This includes getting syntax errors
&mdash; which are always annoying &mdash; as well as the even more annoying
problem of a program which parses without syntax error but doesn&rsquo;t do
what you expect.
<p/> The <code>syntax error</code> message is cryptic: it says <code>syntax error at
</code> followed by the next symbol it couldn&rsquo;t parse. This is good, but
(as of 5.0.0) it doesn&rsquo;t say things like <code>syntax error at line 17,
character 22</code>. Here are some common causes of syntax errors:
<ul>
<li/> Don&rsquo;t forget <code>;</code> at end of line, before another statement on
the next line.
<li/> Miller&rsquo;s DSL lacks the <code>++</code> and <code>--</code> operators.
<li/> Curly braces are required for the bodies of
<code>if</code>/<code>while</code>/<code>for</code> blocks, even when the body is a single
statement.
</ul>
<p/>Now for transparency:
<ul>
<li/>As in any language, you can do
<a href="#Print_statements"><code>print</code></a> (or <code>eprint</code> to print to
stderr). See also <a href="#Dump_statements"><code>dump</code></a> and <a
href="#Emit_statements"><code>emit</code></a>.
<li/> The <code>-v</code> option to <code>mlr put</code> and <code>mlr filter</code> prints
abstract syntax trees for your code. While not all details here will be of
interest to everyone, certainly this makes questions such as operator
precedence completely unambiguous.
<li/> The <code>-T</code> option prints a trace of each statement executed.
<li/> The <code>-t</code> and <code>-a</code> options show low-level details for the
parsing process and for stack-variable-index allocation, respectively. These
will likely be of interest to people who enjoy compilers, and probably less
useful for a more general audience.
<li/> Please see the <a href="#Type-checking">type-checking section</a> for
type declarations and type-assertions you can use to make sure expressions and
the data flowing them are evaluating as you expect. I made them optional
because one of Miller&rsquo;s important use-cases is being able to say simple
things like <code>mlr put '$y = $x + 1' myfile.dat</code> with a minimum of
punctuational bric-a-brac &mdash; but for programs over a few lines I generally
find that the more type-specification, the better.
</ul>
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<p/> One of Miller&rsquo;s strengths is its brevity: it&rsquo;s much quicker
&mdash; and less error-prone &mdash; to type <code>mlr stats1 -a sum -f x,y -g
a,b</code> than having to track summation variables as in <code>awk</code>, or using
Miller&rsquo;s out-of-stream variables. And the more language features
Miller&rsquo;s put-DSL has (for-loops, if-statements, nested control
structures, user-defined functions, etc.) then the <i>less</i> powerful it
begins to seem: because of the other programming-language features it
<i>doesn&rsquo;t</i> have (classes, execptions, and so on).
<p/> When I was originally prototyping Miller in 2015, the decision I had was
whether to hand-code in a low-level language like C or Rust, with my own
hand-rolled DSL, or whether to use a higher-level language (like Python or Lua
or Nim) and let the <code>put</code> statements be handled by the implementation
language&rsquo;s own <code>eval</code>: the implementation language would take the
place of a DSL. Multiple performance experiments showed me I could get better
throughput using the former, and using C in particular &mdash; by a wide margin. So
Miller is C under the hood with a hand-rolled DSL.
<p/> I do want to keep focusing on what Miller is good at &mdash; concise
notation, low latency, and high throughput &mdash; and not add too much in
terms of high-level-language features to the DSL. That said, some sort of
customizability is a basic thing to want. As of 4.1.0 we have recursive
for/while/if structures on about the same complexity level as <code>awk</code>; as
of 5.0.0 we have user-defined functions and map-valued variables, again on
about the same complexity level as <code>awk</code> along with optional
type-declaration syntax. While I&rsquo;m excited by these powerful language
features, I hope to keep new features beyond 5.0.0 focused on Miller&rsquo;s
sweet spot which is speed plus simplicity.
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