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Thank you. I'll have to look into perl a little more!

Got it - that works!! :) Now I have to figure out just what you did! :)

Thanks again all of you for your patience and help!

Yeah, sorry - when I posted the first thread I didn't think it made such a big difference but now I know! Live and learn...

I tried those two commands but I'm getting no output at all. Not sure...

ahmad.diab: the perl script worked well, but only printed out the first instance of the number string after /Start/

Scrutinizer: I'm sorry - what I failed to mention was that when the number...

Thanks Scrutinizer for the clarification!

I'm confused by your other code suggestions though. If I want awk to look for the next time that a scientific notation is NOT used, then how does...

Wonderful! Now I'm going to have to go read to figure out what you did! :)

I also realized something that might have made this easier. The list of numbers seems to always include one positive...

Scrutinizer: Reading some more on awk, I thought the ^ inside the [ ] means that the script will look for a number at the beginning of the line, and the ^ outside the [ ] means it will exclude that. ...

Weird. That looks perfect - it should do what I want. But when I try that, I only get the one line that has the word Start in it.

I'm using AIX and ksh, if that makes any difference.

I...

Thanks both of you for the fast answers! Unfortunately, they didn't work for my case.

I'm not sure if I'm understanding the coding you are suggesting. Like I said in my initial post, the end of...

I'm trying to use awk to extract certain text from a file. The file looks like this:


Start
1 10
2 20
3 30
...
...
...
<some word>


Now what I want to extract is the list of...

Thanks for the clear explanation!

Worked like a charm - thanks!! :) Could you briefly explain what the stuff following the prinf means? With printf, it seems you're printing column 1 and 2 side by side of 8 characters per column. ...

Apologies if this has been covered - I did search but couldn't find what I was looking for.

I have a simple X-Y input file. I want to convert it from two columns into 8 columns - 4 pairs of X-Y...