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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers AWK: Backslash \ and forcing output not to go onto new lines Post 302392812 by ingli on Friday 5th of February 2010 01:43:31 PM
Old 02-05-2010
question 1 solved, question 2 open
thanks for the immediate reply!

regarding the second question: this is the code of my function (which I call as labeling(2)):
Code:
      function labeling(startlabel_is_n_word) { # This function aims to extract the label of nodes/edges from the .dot file.
        sub("\",", " ", $startlabel_is_n_word);
        print  substr($startlabel_is_n_word, 9) #this prints the string starting with '[label="ActualLabel' as 'ActualLabel'.
        labelword=startlabel_is_n_word+1;
        if($labelword~/\"/) {} else {
        do
        {    
            labelword_cleaned = $labelword;
            sub("\",", " ", labelword_cleaned);
            sub("\\\\n", "\n", labelword_cleaned);
            print labelword_cleaned 
            if($labelword~/\"/) { 
            # This bit of code brings us out of here if we encounter an '"'.
            break}
            ++labelword;
        } while(labelword<80);
        }
    };

The relevant bit here is do {...}.
Thus, I want to apply this bit on each string, starting with $2 and ending with string $80.

My input looks like this:
Code:
    cset0 [label="How are members (not) exact?:\n2>assumption>approximation_improved",

awk transforms this now into
Code:
How
are
members
(not)
exact?:
2>assumption>approximation_improved

How would I need to rewrite this code to have as output:
Code:
How are members (not) exact?: 2>assumption>approximation_improved

Cheers!
 

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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