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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting text between two strings Post 302432816 by JamesForeman on Sunday 27th of June 2010 07:06:04 AM
Old 06-27-2010
Thanks all, now I have a slightly improved understanding of sed (and perl as well) Smilie

Bartus11's second bit of perl gives me almost what I want: it gives me the text between the first instance of 'Anna' and the first 'would' after that. But if I have multiple occurrences of 'Anna' and 'would' in my file, how do I get all of them?

Just to clarify, if the text file was

Anna A would Anna B would Anna C would

then I'd want the output to be
A
B
C

and not
A
AB
B
BC
C

or any similar permutation. Should I just get rid of the first occurence in the file and then run Bartus11's second script again (and again and again) until I get no more output? Or is there an elegant way to avoid doing that? (Not that it has to be elegant: I'm quite happy with brute force Smilie )
 

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csx_Event2Text(9F)					   Kernel Functions for Drivers 					csx_Event2Text(9F)

NAME
csx_Event2Text - convert events to text strings SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/pccard.h> int32_t csx_Event2Text(event2text_t *ev); INTERFACE LEVEL
Solaris DDI Specific (Solaris DDI) PARAMETERS
ev Pointer to an event2text_t structure. DESCRIPTION
This function is a Solaris-specific extension that provides a method for clients to convert Card Services events to text strings. STRUCTURE MEMBERS
The structure members of event2text_t are: event_t event; /*the event code*/ char text[CS_EVENT_MAX_BUFSIZE] /*the event code*/ The fields are defined as follows: event The text for the event code in the event field is returned in the text field. text The text string describing the name of the event. RETURN VALUES
CS_SUCCESS Successful operation. CS_UNSUPPORTED_FUNCTION No PCMCIA hardware installed. CONTEXT
This function may be called from user or kernel context. EXAMPLES
Example 1: : Using csx_Event2Text() xx_event(event_t event, int priority, event_callback_args_t *eca) { event2text_t event2text; event2text.event = event; csx_Event2Text(&event2text); cmn_err(CE_CONT, "event %s (0x%x)", event2text.text, (int)event); } SEE ALSO
csx_event_handler(9E), csx_Error2Text(9F) PC Card 95 Standard, PCMCIA/JEIDA SunOS 5.10 19 Jul 1996 csx_Event2Text(9F)
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