Beginner question here.. 3

[BIS]

Hallo All,
Apologies if this is exceedingly obvious.

Suppose I have a file conatining:

some text here
Result1: OK
Result2: OK
some more text here

how would I find and replace Result1 and Result2 with Results? So that the end result would look like:

some text here
Results: OK OK
some more text here

 

[Ygor]

Try...

/Result/ {r = r " " $2; next} 
r {print "Results:" r; r=""}
{print}

 

[BIS]

Many thanks. Actually the part I need is like this (sorry should have posted that).

some text here
First Name: John
Last Name: Doe
some more text here

and I would like to get:

some text here
Name: John Doe
some more text here

so the above construck /Result/ wont work. Any ideas?

 

[futurelet]

/^(First|Last) Name/ {r = r " " $3; next}
r {print "Name:" r; r=""}
{print}

 

[BIS]

Thank you !

 

[BIS]

futurelet,

Could you explain the

r {print "Name:" r; r=""} part?

I am trying to get a result that looks like this:

<Name:> John Doe </Name:>

I can get:

<Name:> John Doe

But I can't seem to figure out how to add the last part...

 

[PHV]

HAve you tried to replace this:
r {print "Name:" r; r=""}
By this ?
r {print "<Name:>" r "</Name>"; r=""}

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[BIS]

Thanks - just realized that
This works great. Many thanks to everyone here - much appreciated.

Just out of curiosity, what does the last r="" do? Resets the variable r?

 

[PHV]

Resets the variable r?
Yes.

 

[BIS]

OK - thanks