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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers awk Varing Field Separators Post 302542329 by bikerben on Wednesday 27th of July 2011 12:56:24 PM
Old 07-27-2011
Hi yazu!!

Thank you for your promt reply, unfortunatly I don't belive this will work. I forgot to metion that this is just one report of many so obviously the data in the read fields verry from report to report. Thank you for your input though.

---------- Post updated at 05:56 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:53 PM ----------

Ahhh I solved my problem by creating a seperate awk script to parse out the data using the following Feild Separator:
Code:
FS="[: ]+"

I then added a line to my bash script to compensate for this extra extraction and then merged my two output files together using sed. Its about as elegant as midnight bar brawl but it works for me.
 

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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.

       See documentation in the base class.

METHODS

       See documentation in the base class.

   Constructors
       See documentation in the base class.

       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
       See documentation in the base class.

       $obj->create(OPTIONS)
	    -Option--Default
	     Text    ''

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

   Accessors
       See documentation in the base class.

       $obj->set(OPTIONS)
	   See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->stringify()
	   See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->tag()
       Mail::Field::Generic->tag()
	   See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

   Smart accessors
       See documentation in the base class.

       $obj->text([STRING])
	   See "Smart accessors" in Mail::Field

DETAILS

       See documentation in the base class.

DIAGNOSTICS

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	   Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality.  Apparently, the method called is not implemented for the specific
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SEE ALSO

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AUTHORS

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       Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>.  Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>.  Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce
       <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>.  For other contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE

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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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