[ILUG] Re: text processing gotcha

[Francis Daly]

On 30/06/06, paul at clubi.ie <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Ray Kelly wrote:
>
> > The basic way that this is now formatted is
> > Date   {cr}
> > {tab}  RX  {tab} rx_figure {cr}
> > {tab}  TX  {tab} tx_figure {cr}
> > {tab}  RXB {tab} RXB_figure {tab} (blah){tab} TXB {tab} TXB_figure {tab}
> > (blah) {cr}
> >
> > what I'm trying to do now is to pull all of of this onto one line
> > so that a carrige return followed by a tab should get replaced by a
> > tab,
>
> Put following in a file:
>
> $1 ~ /^(Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun)/ {
>  	if (line) {
>  		print line;
>  		line = "";
>  	}
> }
>
> { line = $0 "\t"; }

It's better to trigger on end-of-record than start-of-record, as that
avoids off-by-one hassles.

It makes the whole thing simpler too:

awk '{o=o $0}; /\)$/ {print o;o=""}'

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