On 8/23/07, Paschal Nee <pnee at toombeola.com> wrote:
>> 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.
The answer, as it so very often is to slightly complex awk questions, is to
use perl :-)
Niall
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