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[ILUG] Re: text processing gotcha

[ILUG] Re: text processing gotcha

Ray Kelly ray at arco.ie
Thu Jun 29 21:19:50 IST 2006


Francis Daly wrote:
>
> tr only works on single characters, so it can't do what you want 
> directly.
>
> But you can still avoid perl.
>
> How does
>
> awk '/^\t/ { o = o $0 }; /^[^\t]/ { if (NR > 1) print o; o = $0 } END 
> {print o}'
>
> do?
Absolutely perfectly, now I've no idea "what" it's doing but the 
result's what I need ;)
Ta very very muchie.

one pint going that chaps direction (sometime)

ta
    Ray ...



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