I have a small requirement


How to get patterns between string this way


Input..

05 ABC.
TAGTAG 10 AAA PIC 9
10 BBB PIC X
COMMET 10 CCC COMP PIC 9
05 DEF

I wanted to get all the variable between 05 ABC and next 05 level

out put should be

AAA
BBB
CCC

For this specific case, what is your definition of a 'variable'?

it a cobol code..

TAGTAG 10 AAA PIC 9
10 BBB PIC X
[ ]COMMET 10 CCC COMP PIC 9
05 DEF

1st six chars can be anything followed by some spaces

followed by some 2 digit numeric followed by a varible name... followed COMP or just a PIC

sed -n '/^05 ABC/,/^05/p' input_file | sed '1d;$d' | \
while read mLine
do
  mVar=`echo $mLine | sed -e 's/.*[0-9]\{2\} \(.*\) .*/\1/' -e 's/ .*//'`
  echo "mVar = "$mVar
done

thanks...

i was trying with awk '/^05 ABC/,/^05/' input_file

that didnt work

the sed worked ...

thanks

Small extn to the Previous one

I have Some thing like this

SORT KEY FS-KEY1

###

SORT KEY FS-KEY2
FSKEY3

###

SORT KEY
FS-KEY4

###


Can we get the all the KEY Fields..

It Starts with SORT KEY and the KEY feilds can be in the same line or next line until ### comes