Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:31:56 +0530 From: "SIVARAM N" <sivaramn@wipsys.ge.com> To: <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: awk/gawk question Message-ID: <003701bf5cb1$c483c500$8b2fa8c0@wipsys.ge.com> References: <006a01bf5c11$6bdb5940$8b2fa8c0@wipsys.ge.com> <20000111182944.B64680@hades.hell.gr>
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>From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> > If you want to use DESC as the separator of records, you can always > change FS in awk to achieve it. No, that's not what i wanted. The word appears infrequently in the text & that's why i didn't use it the first place. i checked the string functions & found the match() operator which sets RSTART & RLENGTH of the matched string. This along with length($0) helped me to get all text excluding the matched portion. Thanks anyway Regards Sivaram To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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