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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Extracting information from text fields. Post 302120422 by spindoctor on Wednesday 6th of June 2007 11:08:43 AM

06-06-2007

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Hi, On the first point, this is the code I was playing with from the command line, based on your suggestion.
awk 'BEGIN { gsub(/\\/,"")}' 03152000.rtf

Did you put the gsub command in there just to get rid of the backslashes? Or is it related to the field extraction process?

Regarding the second point:
Here is the text, copied straight from the .txt file I'm trying to extract information from.

Author(s): Ashley Geddes, Provincial Affairs Writer

Here is the code (entered in the command line) I got from you and it's output.

awk 'Begin{FS=":"} ; /Author/{print $2 }' 03152000.rtf > Author.txt

Ashley

Here is the modified way I wrote the code and its result

awk 'Begin{FS=":"} ; /Author/{print $2,$3 }' 03152000.rtf > Author.txt

Ashley Geddes,

the same problem occurred with the field "Document Types" I had to change around the fields as you wrote them to get the result.

Obviously I'm not that concerned, because it seems to be working. However I am very curious because I'd like to know how the thing works. Thanks for your help!

spindoctor

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macutil

MACUTIL(1)						      General Commands Manual							MACUTIL(1)

NAME

       macutil - A package that deals with MacIntosh files on a Unix system

DESCRIPTION

       macutil	is  a package that contains a number of utilities that deal with MacIntosh files on a Unix system.  It contains the following pro-
       grams:

       binhex Convert files to BinHex 4.0 compatible hexified form.

       frommac
	      Receives files from the MacIntosh on the Unix system.

       hexbin Convert hexified files to their MacIntosh format.

       macsave
	      Save a series of files from a MacBinary stream as individual files.

       macstream
	      Combine a series of files to a MacBinary stream.

       macunpack
	      Unpack a MacIntosh archive into its constituents.

       tomac  Transmits files from the Unix system to a MacIntosh.

BUGS

       This manual page is hopelessly incomplete!

SEE ALSO

       binhex(1), frommac(1), hexbin(1), macsave(1), macstream(1), macunpack(1), tomac(1)

AUTHOR

       Dik T. Winter, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (dik@cwi.nl)

3rd Berkeley Distribution					 October 22, 1992							MACUTIL(1)

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