[ILUG] Gawk query

[Paschal Nee]

Hi,

Seems like a standard enough query but is there a way to get gawk to
recognise fields that are enclosed by a delimiter as single fields.

An example:

10.129.141.1 - - [23/Aug/2007:16:06:14 +0100] "GET /hh HTTP/1.1" 200 1763
10.129.141.1 - - [23/Aug/2007:16:06:14 +0100] "GET /hy HTTP/1.1" 200 1763
10.129.141.1 - - [23/Aug/2007:16:06:14 +0100] "GET /hz HTTP/1.1" 200 1763
10.129.141.1 - - [23/Aug/2007:16:06:14 +0100] "GET /hf HTTP/1.1" 200 1763

Running gawk '{for (i=0;i<NF;i++) print $i}' on the above would get you

10.129.141.1
-
-
[23/Aug/2007:16:06:14
+0100]
"GET
/hh
HTTP/1.1"
200

whereas what I'm looking for would be

10.129.141.1
-
-
23/Aug/2007:16:06:14 +0100
GET /hh HTTP/1.1
200
1763

i.e. recognising that [] and "" enclose single fields.

There are some kludgey workarounds on the web - if could be done
"right" I'd rather do it that way.  Otherwise I suppose something a
bit more powerful than gawk might be called for.

Thanks,
Paschal.