Two character record seperator

[richardii]

I have a text file that I want to process using RS =""

Problem is that the file has &quot" in as well, and awk is recognising &quot" as the RS, as well as ""

How can I get round this?

Thanks.

 

[grega]

Only the 1st char of RS is significant. One solution may be to pipe the file through sed (or similar) first, and change the separator from ); to a single character of your choice.

Greg.

 

[flogrr]

Hi Richardii-

Is this what you need?

If this does not work, please post a snippet of both
input and the desired output.


awk ' {

count = split($0,arr,"&quot

for (i=1;i<=count;i++) print arr

}' input > output

HTH



flogrr
flogr@yahoo.com

 

[richardii]

Thanks - both tips very useful!