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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Printing Field with Delimiter in AWK/cut Post 302349633 by Jahn on Tuesday 1st of September 2009 11:45:44 AM
Old 09-01-2009
Printing Field with Delimiter in AWK/cut
Hello,

I had posted earlier about printing fields using AWK, but now I have a slightly different problem. I have text files in the format:

Code:
1*2,3,4,5

and wish to print the first, third, and fifth fields, including the asterisk and commas. In other words, after filtering it should look like this:

Code:
1*3,5

I know how to print the fields using AWK, sed, or cut, but do not know how to deal with printing fields with different delimiters, nor how to include those in the output. Any advice is much appreciated!


Thank you,

-Jahn
 

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Mail::Field::Generic(3) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   Mail::Field::Generic(3)

NAME

       Mail::Field::Generic - implementation for inspecific fields

INHERITANCE

	Mail::Field::Generic
	  is a Mail::Field

SYNOPSIS

	use Mail::Field;
	my $field = Mail::Field->new('Subject', 'some subject text');
	my $field = Mail::Field->new(subject => 'some subject text');

DESCRIPTION

       A generic implementation for header fields without own implementation. This is fine for fields like "Subject", "X-Mailer", etc., where the
       field holds only a string of no particular importance/format.

METHODS

   Constructors
       Mail::Field::Generic->combine(FIELDS)

	   See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

       Mail::Field::Generic->extract(TAG, HEAD [, INDEX ])

	   See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

       Mail::Field::Generic->new(TAG [, STRING | OPTIONS])

	   See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

   "Fake" constructors
       $obj->create(OPTIONS)

	Option--Default
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       $obj->parse([STRING])

	   Set the new text, which is empty when no STRING is provided.

   Accessors
       $obj->set(OPTIONS)

	   See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->stringify

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	   See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

   Smart accessors
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DETAILS

DIAGNOSTICS

       Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called

	   Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality.  Apparently, the mehod called is not implemented for the specific
	   class of the field object.

SEE ALSO

       This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.

AUTHORS

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       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  See
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