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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using awk to find next word available Post 302392787 by NickC on Friday 5th of February 2010 12:30:38 PM
Old 02-05-2010
Using awk to find next word available

I'm trying to use awk to extract certain text from a file. The file looks like this:

Code:
Start
1  10
2  20
3  30
 ...
 ...
 ...
<some word>

Now what I want to extract is the list of numbers (without the search text printed) that occur between "Start" and <some word>. The catch is that <some word> isn't always the same word!

I've gotten close with an awk script that looks like this:

Code:
awk '/Start/ {flag=1;next} /End/ {flag=0} flag {print}'  <filename>

This gives me exactly what I want, provided that <some word> happens to be "End" - problem is that it could be something else. The only sure thing is that it's some kind of letter. So I need to replace /End/ with some kind of variable that says to search between "Start" and the next time a letter A..Z is found.

I thought it should be fairly straightforward but I can't find a way (searched the boards). I'm not looking for anything too elaborate, so please don't spend too much time with complicated code! Smilie I have a workaround - just would like to see if there is a cleaner way to do it!
 

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