Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 00:07:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Christian Lacunza <celacunza@yahoo.com> To: Marc Wandschneider <marcw@lanfear.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AWK trivia Message-ID: <20001016070741.24118.qmail@web6305.mail.yahoo.com>
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hi Marc.
apparently /usr/bin/awk is really gawk,
so you can set FS to a regexp like this:
/usr/bin/awk -F ' *"'
and that does what you wanted.
-- christian.
> blaugh!
>
> so, i have a file in the following format:
>
> SOME_SINGLE_WORD STRING "A quoted String"
>
> Where the two things are separated by any amount of whitespace, not
> including \n.
>
> I would like to set up AWK so that I end up having:
>
> $1 = SOME_SINGLE_WORD_STRING
> $2 = "A Quoted STring"
>
> for each line/record [with or without the quotes].
>
> this actually appears to be non-trivial.
>
> any suggestions? i've zipped through the two texts i have on it,
> without much luck.
>
> thanks!
>
> marc.
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