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Old 12-19-2013
You could also try something like:
Code:
printf "%s\n" 512m512m 1024g1024g 2048G2048G 512M1024G 123a456b789c 987Kb654Kb321Kb | awk '
{       printf("\tInput string %d: %s\n", NR, $0)
        nnum = split($0, num, /[^[:digit:]]*/)
        for(i = 1; i < nnum; i++)
                printf("a[%d]=%s\n", i - 1, num[i])
        nfs = split($0, fs, /[[:digit:]]*/)
        printf("fieldsep=%s", fs[2])
        pa = 0
        for(i = 3; i <= nfs; i++)
                if(fs[i] != fs[2]) pa = 1
        if(pa)
                for(i = 3; i <= nfs; i++)
                        printf(",%s", fs[i])
        printf("\n")
}'

which produces:
Code:
	Input string 1: 512m512m
a[0]=512
a[1]=512
fieldsep=m
	Input string 2: 1024g1024g
a[0]=1024
a[1]=1024
fieldsep=g
	Input string 3: 2048G2048G
a[0]=2048
a[1]=2048
fieldsep=G
	Input string 4: 512M1024G
a[0]=512
a[1]=1024
fieldsep=M,G
	Input string 5: 123a456b789c
a[0]=123
a[1]=456
a[2]=789
fieldsep=a,b,c
	Input string 6: 987Kb654Kb321Kb
a[0]=987
a[1]=654
a[2]=321
fieldsep=Kb

# 9  
Old 12-19-2013
Thanks everyone for your quick solutions.
@ Chubler_XL : your solution works perfect for my need; however

I tried doing this , It does not give me the result

Code:
echo jopts="512M1024G" | awk 'BEGIN { x="$jopts"; gsub(/[kKmMgGtT]/,";&;",x); split(x,A,";");print A[1],A[2]; print A[3],A[4]}'

here is what i get
Code:
$jop t
s

which is quite not the solution; how do i pass the variable to awk??

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Quote:
Originally Posted by ramky79
Thanks everyone for your quick solutions.
@ Chubler_XL : your solution works perfect for my need; however

I tried doing this , It does not give me the result

Code:
echo jopts="512M1024G" | awk 'BEGIN { x="$jopts"; gsub(/[kKmMgGtT]/,";&;",x); split(x,A,";");print A[1],A[2]; print A[3],A[4]}'

here is what i get
Code:
$jop t
s

which is quite not the solution; how do i pass the variable to awk??

Got it!!

Here is how i did it:
HTML Code:
jopts=512M1024G;awk 'BEGIN { x="'$jopts'"; gsub(/[kKmMgGtT]/,";&;",x); split(x,A,";");print A[1]A[2]; print A[3]A[4]}'
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