Find a search pattern within a given pattern

[sojankurian]

Hi,
in the sample file given below

line 1
myvar
line 3
FUNCTION
line 5
myvar
line 7
END FUNCTION

I want to print the second 'myvar' which is coming in between FUNCTION......END FUNCTION block.

How do I do it?

Thanks

 

[Annihilannic]

This should do it:

[tt]awk '/^FUNCTION/,/^END FUNCTION/ { if ($0 ~ /myvar/) {print } }'[/tt]

Annihilannic.

 

[sojankurian]

Thanks a lot for that.

 

[feherke]

Hi

And the same for [tt]sed[/tt] lovers :

sed -n '/^FUNCTION/,/^END FUNCTION/{/myvar/p}' /input/file

Tested with GNU [tt]sed[/tt].

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/