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Using $ in search string
Feherke, Thanks for the solution, it worked perfectly and more importantly thank you for the discussion of what the issue in the problem was. I had not been aware that the RS string was interpreted as a regular expression when given as a string. I had even tried RS = /\n\$\$\$\$\n/ with no... -
Using $ in search string
I have a file format that has blank lines within the record, and uses $$$$ as a record end. Thus \n$$$$\n is the end of the record, the the next character starts the next record. I have made several attempts to parse this with awk, RS = "\n$$$$\n" does not work RS = /\n\$\$\$\$\n/ does not...
