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From: davr@hrtix.UUCP (David C. Raines)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: extracting "rest of line" in AWK
Summary: Printing end of line in AWK
Message-ID: <173@hrtix.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 15:13:56 GMT
References: <3368@blake.acs.washington.edu> <9363@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <9363@chinet.chi.il.us>, john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt) writes:
> In article <3368@blake.acs.washington.edu> mbader@cac.washington.edu (Mark Bader) writes:
> >Does anyone know of a way to extract the "rest of the line" in awk..
> >e.g. I have a line that looks like
> >
> >%% Heading "This is a Graph Heading"
> >
> >and I want to do a {print $3} to get the "This is a Graph Heading" part,
> >but this obviously dosen't work.   Is there a way to do this?  

How about:

	for (v = 3; v <= NF; v++)
		printf ("%s ", $v)
	printf "\n"

or alternatively (if the quotes are always present), set FS='"' and print $2.

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