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# 15  
Old 04-06-2009
I have just discovered that by piping the results of the sed command to head -1 returns the desired string, (and only the desired string). ie:

sed -n '/WELL:/{n;n;p;}' asciipds | awk -F\" '{ print $2 }' | head -1

Thanks,
Paul H.
# 16  
Old 04-06-2009
Have you tried the awk solution?

Code:
awk -F "\"" '/COMPANY/{getline;getline;print $2}' file

This is the output I get:

Code:
$ cat file
TextRel 217 0 0 "COMPANY: "
SetPosAbs 1287 -6656
TextRel 224 0 0 "BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE"
SetPosAbs 1137 -6680
TextRel 218 0 0 "WELL:"
SetPosAbs 1287 -6626
TextRel 225 0 0 "AEPAEP"
SetPosAbs 1141 -6596
TextRel 219 0 0 "FIELD:"
SetPosAbs 1287 -6596
TextRel 226 0 0 "MOUNTAINEER"
SetPosAbs 1141 -6566
TextRel 220 0 0 "County: "
SetPosAbs 1287 -6566
TextRel 227 0 0 "MASON"
SetPosAbs 1141 -6536
TextRel 221 0 0 "State:"
SetPosAbs 1287 -6536
TextRel 228 0 0 "WEST VIRGINIA"
SetPosAbs 1141 -6506
TextRel 222 0 0 "COUNTRY:"
SetPosAbs 1287 -6506
TextRel 229 0 0 "USA"
$
$ awk -F "\"" '/COMPANY/{getline;getline;print $2}' file
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
$ awk -F "\"" '/WELL/{getline;getline;print $2}' file
AEPAEP
~/scripts$ awk -F "\"" '/FIELD/{getline;getline;print $2}' file
MOUNTAINEER
$ awk -F "\"" '/COMPANY/{getline;getline;print $2}' file
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
$

Have I missed something?

Regards
# 17  
Old 04-06-2009
When I run the following command from the command line prompt:

awk -F "\"" '/COMPANY/{getline;getline;print $2}' asciipds

I get:
Unmatched "

When I run:

awk -F \" '/COMPANY/{getline;getline;print $2}' asciipds

I get:

awk: can't open /COMPANY/{getline;getline;print $2}


Which shell are you running? I'm running in the csh which is what may be making the difference.

Thanks,
Paul H.
# 18  
Old 04-06-2009
Try it with nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.

Regards
# 19  
Old 04-06-2009
The following command:

nawk -F \" '/COMPANY/{getline;getline;print $2}' asciipds | head -1

returned the following string:

BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE

Without the "head -1" it was returning a second unwanted string as well.

Is nawk specifically for the c shell?

Thanks,
Paul H.
# 20  
Old 04-07-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by phudgens
The following command:

nawk -F \" '/COMPANY/{getline;getline;print $2}' asciipds | head -1

returned the following string:

BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE

Without the "head -1" it was returning a second unwanted string as well.

Is nawk specifically for the c shell?

Thanks,
Paul H.
I don't think it should not matters but the c shell is not recommended for scripting:

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt

Regards
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