[ILUG] Re: text processing gotcha

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Francis Daly wrote:

> 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}

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

Yep.

I didn't key on an EoR because I don't see any easy EoR in the above 
other than a !<list of non-EoR lines> conditional.

> It makes the whole thing simpler too:
>
> awk '{o=o $0}; /\)$/ {print o;o=""}'

That would, I thought, have missed the last '(blah)' line, but 
looking carefully at the format (rather than the example) there's 
only line one of those - Ray sent his mail (with long lines) as 
text/flowed so my MUA line-wrapped the example.

Apologies.

regards,
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