[ILUG] text flow tools

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:35:19 +0100 (IST)
  | From: Paul Jakma <paul at clubi.ie>
  | On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Paul Biggar wrote:
  | > grep can find two words one after the other by doing 'grep "word1
  | > word2"'. Does anybody know a way of making this return a case where
  | > word1 is at the end of one line, and word2 is at the start of the
  | > next.
  | 
  | Using GNU AWK, something vaguely like (untested):  [ ... ]

 I have not tried Paul's posted script, but it does point out a
 possible confusion/unclarity in Paul's request.  it looks to me
 that Paul's script will _only_ print matches when word1 is at
 the end of a line and word2 is at the start of the next line.
 (it also does not allow trailing spaces at the end of line 1
 or leading spaces on line 2, both of which are legal and
 harmless in (La)TeX.)

 but that is not how I read Paul's question.  I read it as wanting
 to print something (nominally each line) that "matches", where a
 match is word1, whitespace (including up to one newline), then
 word2.  e.g., the single line “foo word1 word2 bar” would also
 match — which is not printed by Paul's gawk(1) solution.

cheers!
	-blf-
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