Ignore Binary

[beaster]

The unix scripting forum gave me some script to perform what I needed, but I am stuck with an issue:

#begin code

BEGIN {
RS=FS=""
}
$1 ~ /^CB +/ && $2 ~ /^YES +/ { print prev }
{prev=$NF}

#end code

At the top of my file there is similiar to text below:

USERCODE:beaster

PASSWORD:

WO VABSC023G000205Y2900C00 NVT-560 TIME 060105 1347 PAGE 1

<rlsbp:cell=all;

Is there a way to have awk/nawk ignore what it perceives as binary?

Other post:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1171543&page=1

 

[Salem]

If you make this the first action in your script, it should work. Seems to work with GNU awk at least.

{ sub(/\x03/,"",$0) }

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[beaster]

So like this below?

#begin code

BEGIN { sub(/\x03/,"",$0) }
RS=FS=""
}
$1 ~ /^CB +/ && $2 ~ /^YES +/ { print prev }
{prev=$NF}

#end code

 

[Salem]

#begin code

BEGIN {
  RS=FS=""
}

{ sub(/\x03/,"",$0) }

$1 ~ /^CB +/ && $2 ~ /^YES +/ { print prev }

{prev=$NF}

#end code

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[Annihilannic]

You could also just put a few getlines in the BEGIN clause to skip over the first few lines.

Annihilannic.