Hi,

I want to be able to read numbers from many files which have the same general form as follows:

C3H8              4.032258004031807E-002
 Phi =    1.000000E+00 Tau =       5.749E+00
 sL0  =    3.805542E+01 dL0 =    1.514926E-02
 Tb  =    2.328291E+03 Tu =  3.450E+02 Alpha =    8.743165E-02
 Mixture Visco. =    1.977164E-04 g/cm-s

sL0       dL0       Tb         Tu
3.805542E+01   1.514926E-02    2.328291E+03  3.450E+02

awk '/Sl/{Sl=$3}/Tb/{Tb=$3}END{print Sl, Tb}' DILAT.DAT

You can try:

awk 'BEGIN{ print "sL0", "dL0", "Tb","Tu"}/sL0.*dL0/{sL0=$3;dL0=$6}/Tb.*Tu/{ print sL0, dL0, $3,$6}'

Hi, how can I use a similar code to the one given above to read the value next to 'Thermal thickness' in the following data? i.e. how can awk deal with the space character?

Sl  =    3.480633E+01 Thermal thickness =    2.163022E-02

Assuming that you are interested in the last field of rows containing "Thermal thickness"

awk '/Thermal thickness/ { Tt = $NF }'