03-30-2009
Awk regular expressions
Hi Experts,
Can you please help me out for the below scenario,
I have a variable length file with the fixed number of columns, in which the fields are delimited by pipe symbol (|). From that file I have to extract the lines which has the following scenario,
The field1 in a line should have the field2 as its part.
For example,
sample.out
A123(BCD)|BCD|DEFGH||WE|
C234|54CD|DFVCSE|W|TY|
From the above sample file, I have to extract the line A123(BCD)|BCD|DEFGH||WE| , in which the field1 has the value of field2 enclosed in brackets.
Hope I am clear.
I have tried using awk -F'|' '{if( $1 ~ /$2/ ) {print $0;}}' sample.out
This is not working for me.
Kindly help me out for this.
Thanks in advance,
Chella.
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