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# 1  
Old 02-25-2007
Search term and output term in desired field
Hi All,

I have an input_file below and i would like to use Perl to search for the term "aaa" and output the 3rd term in the same row as "aaa".For Example, i want to search for the term "ddd" and would want the code to ouput the 3rd term in the same row which is "fff". Can somebody help ?


Input_file:
aaa bbb ccc
ddd eee fff
hhhh pppp kkk jjjj
vvvv mm sss zzz

Output:
fff
# 2  
Old 02-26-2007
This one!

Code:
#! /opt/third-party/bin/perl

my(@split_arr);

open(FILE, "< file") || die "Unable to open file <$!>\n";

while(<FILE>) {
  @split_arr = split(/ /, $_);
  if( $split_arr[0] =~ m/ddd/ ) {
    print "$split_arr[2]";
  }
}

close(FILE);
exit 0

# 3  
Old 02-26-2007
using awk
Hi
this command would work try this
sed -n '\ddd\p' filename | awk '{print $3}'
you can do the same without sed and only awk


Best Regards,
Rakesh UV
# 4  
Old 02-26-2007
since OP had asked for the reply in perl, i gave it that way

anyway here is with awk
Code:
awk '/^pattern/ { print $3 }' file

# 5  
Old 02-26-2007
Code:
sed -n "/ddd/s/\([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\).*/\3/p" file

# 6  
Old 02-26-2007
Code:
perl -lane 'if (/ddd/) { print $F[2] } ' file

# 7  
Old 02-26-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by anbu23
Code:
perl -lane 'if (/ddd/) { print $F[2] } ' file

Hi Anbu,

Your perl script works. But how can i make it in a form where i can place it in the format below (known as test.pl) below where i can just type perl test.pl, the ouput will be out.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl 

#contains some other codes as well

perl -lane 'if (/ddd/) { print $F[2] } ' file
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