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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk Multiple Field Separators Post 49660 by google on Wednesday 7th of April 2004 07:16:33 AM
Old 04-07-2004
You can massage the data a bit by changing all of the "(" and ")" and "." to a ":" before you parse the data. Once you have that then all of your data looks the same. Set FS = ":" to define your fields, set OFS to some output delimiter you need and print your data. If you need the parens in the output, add them back in your print statement. Remember, Awk does not change the original record so you can make these changes for the purposes of your program without mucking anything up!

Code:
gensub(regexp, replacement, how [, target]) # 
gensub is a general substitution function. Like sub and gsub, it 
searches the target string target for matches of the regular 
expression regexp. Unlike sub and gsub, the modified string is 
returned
as the result of the function and the original target string is not 
changed. If how is a string beginning with g or G, then it replaces
 all matches of regexp with replacement. Otherwise, how is 
treated as a number that indicates which match of regexp to 
replace. If no target is supplied, $0 is used.
 

gensub provides an additional feature that is not available in sub
 or gsub: the ability to specify components of a regexp in the
replacement text. This is done by using parentheses in the regexp
 to mark the components and then specifying \N in the 
replacement text, where N is a digit from 1 to 9. For example:


Last edited by google; 04-07-2004 at 08:24 AM..
 

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PPI::Token::Regexp::Match(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      PPI::Token::Regexp::Match(3)

NAME
PPI::Token::Regexp::Match - A standard pattern match regex INHERITANCE
PPI::Token::Regexp::Match isa PPI::Token::Regexp isa PPI::Token isa PPI::Element SYNOPSIS
$text =~ m/match regexp/; $text =~ /match regexp/; DESCRIPTION
A "PPI::Token::Regexp::Match" object represents a single match regular expression. Just to be doubly clear, here are things that are and aren't considered a match regexp. # Is a match regexp /This is a match regexp/; m/Old McDonald had a farm/eieio; # These are NOT match regexp qr/This is a regexp quote-like operator/; s/This is a/replace regexp/; METHODS
There are no methods available for "PPI::Token::Regexp::Match" beyond those provided by the parent PPI::Token::Regexp, PPI::Token and PPI::Element classes. Got any ideas for methods? Submit a report to rt.cpan.org! SUPPORT
See the support section in the main module. AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. perl v5.16.2 2011-02-25 PPI::Token::Regexp::Match(3)
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