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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting text between two constant strings Post 302554225 by shoaibjameel123 on Saturday 10th of September 2011 11:13:51 PM
Old 09-11-2011
Extracting text between two constant strings
Hi All,

I have a file whose common patter is like this:

Code:
.I 1
.U    
87049087
.S
Some text here too
.M
This is a text
.T
Some another text here
.P
Name of the book
.W
Some lines of more text. This text needs to be extracted.
.A
more text goes here too
.I 2
.U    
87049088
.S
Some text here too. More text from previous text
.M
This is a text
.T
Some another text here
.P
Name of the book
.W
Some lines of more text. This text needs to be extracted. This is text 2.
.A
more text goes here too

I want to extract text that is between .W and .A that is this text and store this text in 1.txt. The above pattern continues in the entire file. This means that I will start from 1.txt, then go to next pattern and

Code:
Some lines of more text. This text needs to be extracted.

and for the second pattern store in 2.txt

Code:
Some lines of more text. This text needs to be extracted. This is text 2.

As you can see the file numbers actually come from .I that is present in the above pattern.

I am using Linux with BASH and this is what I have done but seem it does not produce the desired results.

Code:
awk '/\.W/,/\.A/{c++}{print > c ".txt"}' FILE

 

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dwtcstextreplace

DwtCSTextReplace(3Dwt)													    DwtCSTextReplace(3Dwt)

Name
       DwtCSTextReplace - Replaces a portion of the current text in the compound-string text widget or inserts some new text into the current text
       of the compound-string text widget.

Syntax
       void DwtCSTextReplace(widget, from_pos, to_pos, value)
	    Widget widget;
	    int from_pos, to_pos;
	    DwtCompString value;

Arguments
       widget	 Specifies the ID of the compound-string text widget.

       from_pos  Specifies the first character position of the compound-string text being replaced.

       to_pos	 Specifies the last character position of the compound-string text being replaced.

       value	 Specifies the text to replace part of the current text in the compound-string text widget.

Description
       The DwtCSTextReplace function replaces part of the text in the compound-string text widget.  Within  the  widget,  positions  are  numbered
       starting  at  0 and increasing sequentially.  For example, to replace the second and third characters in the text, from_pos should be 1 and
       to_pos should be 3.  To insert text after the fourth character, from_pos and to_pos should both be 4.

See Also
       DwtCSText(3Dwt), DwtCSTextCreate(3Dwt), DwtCSTextSetString(3Dwt),  DwtCSTextGetEditable(3Dwt),  DwtCSTextSetEditable(3Dwt),  DwtCS-
       TextGetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtCSTextSetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtCSTextSetSelection(3Dwt), DwtCSTextGetSelection(3Dwt)
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding

															    DwtCSTextReplace(3Dwt)
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