Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:07:56 +0200 From: "Marc Wandschneider" <marcw@lanfear.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: AWK trivia Message-ID: <003401c03782$deab0540$0800000a@lanfear.com> References: <000701c036d4$d6578340$0800000a@lanfear.com> <20001016065304.A66023@gray.westgate.gr>
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> <off the top of my head awk & sed games>
>
> I would try something like:
>
> % sed -e 's/[ ^I]*/:/'
>
> to make the first part of the line (the one including
> SOME_SINGLE_WORD_STRING, in your example) be separated from the rest of
> the line by a single ':' character.
>
> Then it should be fairly easy to have AWK print what you want.
>
thanks for the suggestions -- in the end, given that i was also hoping
to support strings wrapping over newlines, i just wrote a 30 line c program
to do it instead :-)
marc.
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