I will start with an example of what I'm trying to do and then describe how I am approaching the issue.

File

Code:

 PS028,005 [JHRS-<Pr>] [ABC <Ob>]
 Lexeme     HRS       # M      #
 PhraseType  1(1:1) 7(7)
 PhraseLab  501[0]      503[0]
 ClauseType ZYq0

 PS028,005 [W-<Cj>] [L> <Ng>] [JBN-<Pr>] [XYZ <Ob>]
 Lexeme     W      # L>      # BNH      # M      #
 PhraseType  6(6) 11(11) 1(1:1) 7(7)
 PhraseLab  509[0]   510[0]    501[0]     503[0]
 ClauseType WxY0

Desired Output

Code:

 PS028,005 ABC

 PS028,005 XYZ

I would also be happy with the following where I can strip things off by piping into sed:

Code:

 PS028,005 [ABC <Ob>]

 PS028,005 [XYZ <Ob>]

In essence, when a line begins with /^ PS/ then print $1 of that line along with the string between strings "[" and "<Ob>]". I can use sed to get the string between "[" and "<Ob>]" but I cannot get $1 (when $1 ~/^ PS/) to print along with it.

I have attempted:

Code:

awk '/^ PS/{print $1, $(/\[.*\<Ob\>\]/)}' File

Here I am attempting to use a nonconstant field number, however this seems to print the entire line containing the matching string in question.

Another attempt has been this:

Code:

awk '/^PS/{a = $1; $2 = /\[.*\<Ob\>\]/}{print a,$2}' File

Finally I have tried utilize an array, and must admit that even after reading the man awk page, I still find these confusing.

Code:

awk 'BEGIN{a[NR]=$0}{if(/\[.*\<Ob\>\]/ in a && $1 ~/^ PS/) print}' File

Obviously, none of these has worked. I would greatly appreciate any help on what should be a relatively easy bit of code that I'm just not getting. Thanks in advance.