Exception in a regular expression

[upilliappan]

Hi

I ma getting the following error while executing the script .

Error message

# ./check_syntax
./check_syntax: line 115: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./check_syntax: line 115: ` /[A-Z]\=\`*\`/ { printf("\"%s\"\n", $0); next } \'


The line 115 is

awkOutput=`$AWK 'BEGIN { Ni=0 } \
/^#/ { next } \
/[A-Z]\=\`*\`/ { printf("\"%s\"\n", $0); next } \
/[A-Z_]\=/ { next } \
/^$/ { next } \
{ printf("\"%s\"\n", $0); next }' $ENV_FILE`

Please let me know if there are any syntax errors in the expression.


Regards
Upilli

 

[columb]

Hmm
Your code works fine under AIX 5.1. Are yo sure you copied it correctly?
Also the code is a little strange
The same effect could be done with

awkOutput=$($AWK '!/^#/ && !/^$/ {print}' $ENV_FILE)

but I guess you're going to do things with the different types of line. Even so the printf is over the top when a simple print will do.
Also are you sure you don't mean /[A-Z]+\=/ and /[A-Z_]+\=/ for the two expressions.


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Columb Healy

 

[feherke]

Hi

I can only confirm that it works on Linux too, with [tt]gawk[/tt] and [tt]mawk[/tt]. At least for my test files, as you did not provided one.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/