On 2 May 2006, at 18:25, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Talking of scripts, could you please tell me
> the simplest script to search through "refer-like" files
> with items separated by a blank line, eg
>> %n Tom
> %t 3
>> %n Peter
> %t 17
>> I'd like a script (in any known language), say "foo", so that
> "foo Tom" would print out
>> %n Tom
> %t 3
Well, so far we've had offers in perl, and a combo. of awk & shell,
but for the life of me, unless there's something Tim hasn't told us
(in which case presumably the other offers will also be wrong), I
don't see why anything more than
grep -A 1 Tom FILE
is needed.
Niall
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