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awk field separator

Reinhard Burger — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:37:00 GMT

Hi

I have a question about awk . Having a file like this

line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
line next set of lines
line 7
line 8
line 9
line next set of lines ( and so on approx 7000 lines)

i use line next set of lines as recordseparator .
How do i tell awk that a single line should be one field ?
I was looking in the knowledge base but i did'nt find it there. Maybe i'm searching wrong.

Re: awk field separator

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:42:15 GMT

Hi
Try with this in the beginning of your script:
BEGIN { FS = \n }

Re: awk field separator

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:47:03 GMT

Hi
Prehaps you should change the Record separator to a single character.
BEGIN { FS=\n
RS=# }

Re: awk field separator

Reinhard Burger — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:47:22 GMT

Hi Leif
Thats what i already tried
and awk is responding with this :

syntax error The source line is 1.
The error context is
BEGIN { FS = >>> \ <<< n ; counter = 0 }
awk: The statement cannot be correctly parsed.
The source line is 1.
syntax error The source line is 1.

any idea ?

Reinhard

Re: awk field separator

Reinhard Burger — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:51:08 GMT

The record separator is no problem.
Maybe my example is a little bit silly.
Real i use the single word "DBNAME" as record separator

Re: awk field separator

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:52:20 GMT

Hi
For some tome ago i have done this but I dont remember exact.

Have you tested witth quotes
FS= "\n"

Re: awk field separator

Carlos Fernandez Riera — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:58:12 GMT

Check this:

awk ' BEGIN { RS="x"}^J{ print NR , $0 }' /tmp/87

__>1 line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
line ne
__>2 t set of lines
line 7
line 8
line 9
line ne
__>3 t set of lines

RS is restricted to one char.

Re: awk field separator

Reinhard Burger — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:58:16 GMT

Great Leif

You got it !!!

Thanks for your help.