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Old 10-13-2010
AWK break string into fields + pattern match

I am trying to break a string into separate fields and print the field that matches a pattern. I am using awk at the moment and have gotten this far:

Code:
awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;++i)print "\t" $i}' longstring

This breaks the string into fields and prints each field on a separate line.
I want to add a pattern match to this using the posix version of awk, or replace the whole thing with sed or perl.
 

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