Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a data file as follows. The 1st line of record starts with "<JOB" and the last line of record ends with "</JOB". There are multiple rows (62 -70) within <JOB and </JOB and it varies. There are multiple records in the file starting with <JOB and ending with </JOB.

Sample data:
<JOB
NAME=JOE DIZA
AGE=52
DOB=110956
AAA=001
BBB=070
</JOB
<JOB
NAME=YEZDI RANG
AGE=53
DOB=110955
AAA=001
DDD=070
</JOB

I want the output to look like this with delimter '|'
<JOB | NAME=JOE DIZA| AGE=52 | DOB=110956 |AAA=001|BBB=070|</JOB
<JOB | NAME=YEZDI RANG| AGE=53 | DOB=110955 |AAA=001|DDD=070|</JOB

Any help will be appreciated.

Code:

awk '/JOB/ { JOB = !JOB} JOB {printf $0"|" ; next} 1' file > newfile

Gives me a syntax error. Tried runing using 'awk -f ' getting same error.

awk '/JOB/ { JOB = !JOB} JOB {printf $0"|" ; next} 1' testdata > newfile
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1

try nawk instead of awk, although I'm not sure that it will work there either and I don't currently have anything other than gawk available to test on.

Code:

$/="</JOB";
open FH,"<a.txt" or die "Can not open file\n";
my @arr=<FH>;
for($i=0;$i<=$#arr;$i++){
	 $arr[$i]=~s/\n/|/g;
	 print $arr[$i],"\n";
}

Code:

> cat file89
<JOB
NAME=JOE DIZA
AGE=52
DOB=110956
AAA=001
BBB=070
</JOB
<JOB
NAME=YEZDI RANG
AGE=53
DOB=110955
AAA=001
DDD=070
</JOB
> sed "s/<\/JOB/&~/" file89 | tr "\n" "|" | tr "~" "\n" | sed "s/^|//"       
<JOB|NAME=JOE DIZA|AGE=52|DOB=110956|AAA=001|BBB=070|</JOB
<JOB|NAME=YEZDI RANG|AGE=53|DOB=110955|AAA=001|DDD=070|</JOB
>

Thanks to JOEYG.... The sed..tr... solution worked great with the perfect output format.

Another output I would like is to get using the same input data, is to create a record consisting of only the second field within the <JOB and </JOB statement.