Hi All,

I know that i can print the lines from awk just using the print method, but i need to print stuff before it i.e:


BEGIN
{
i=0
}
{
i++
print i ")"
print
}
END
{
}

Here the output is:

1)
Line
2)
Line
3)
etc

But i need it to be on the same line, i.e.
1) Line
2) Line

Thanks, Chris.

or look into 'printf' for finer formatin' options.

Thanks vgersh99, knew it would be something simple. And ill take a look at printf.

Thanks again, Chris.

Actually i have another problem, i didnt actually want to print the line to out put i wanted to save it as an array and print at the end i.e.

BEGIN
{
i=0
}
{
i++
Lines[i]= i ")" $0
}
END
{
for(Line in Lines)
{
print Lines[Line]
}
}

Problem here is that the array is returned totally unordered and i get an output like:

4) blah
2) blah
17) blah

Whats happening?

nevermind just did

for(j=0;J<i;j++)
{
print Lines[j]
}

Ta Chris.

lol, im back :-). I have no problems printing the results to the screen but i can seem to add them to a file i.e.

for(j=1;J<=i;j++)
{
print Lines[j] > Out
}

Gives me this error:

awk: cmd. line:17: (FILENAME=- FNR=28) fatal: expression for `>' redirection has null string value

ive tryed this but still doesnt work:


for(j=1;J<=i;j++)
{
if(Lines[j]!=null)
{
print Lines[j] > Out
}
}