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From: matthew@sunpix.East.Sun.COM ( Sun Visualization Products)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AWK field seperator question
Message-ID: <1150@greens.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 17 Feb 90 20:22:43 GMT
References: <"900215154914.75046.606.CHD39-1"@CompuServe.COM>
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In article <"900215154914.75046.606.CHD39-1"@CompuServe.COM> 75046.606@CompuServe.COM (Larry W. Virden) writes:
]I have an awk question.  I am using SunOS 4.0.2 on a Sun 386i.
]I want to , within a particular pattern { action }, reset the
]Field Seperator, process the current record, then set the FS back
]to the default action.
]
]To do this, I tried:
]/config/ {
]        FS = "\""; print $2 ;
]        FS = ""
]        next
]}
]
]{
]        print $1, $2
]}

    Leave the field seperator alone, and try using the split function.

                            n = split(s, arr, sep)

n = number of resultant elements
s = the string to be disected
arr = the name of the array to place the elements
sep = the seperation character

    In your example I would do:

 /config/ { split($0, LINE, "\"); print LINE[2] }



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