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Old 05-31-2012
Concatenate text between patterns in individual strings
In any given file, wherever a certain data block exists I need to concatenate the values(text after each "=" sign) from that block. in that block. The block starts and ends with specific pattern, say BEGIN DS and END DS respectively. The block size may vary. A file will have multiple such blocks. So say if there are 6 such blocks then I need 6 strings which have data in those respective blocks. Kindly guide.

Eg. "$file" has content :
Code:
 
Some lines of 
text
Begin DS
var1=some
var2=text 2 b concatenated 
End DS 
some more 
data
Begin DS
var1=some more
var2=text
var3=2 concatenate in 
var4=next string
End DS
:
:
so on

OUTPUT :::
Code:
 
text 2 b concatenated 
some more text 2 concatenate in next string
:

I know how to use sed for this if the block size was fixed ...
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-01-2012 at 04:53 AM.. Reason: code tags instead of quote tags
# 2  
Old 05-31-2012
Your example output seems missing a "some" in the 1st line. Anyway:

Code:
# awk -F= '/^Begin DS/ {i++} i && /^var[0-9]=/ {a ? a=a " " $NF : a=$NF } /^End DS/ {print a; a=x; i--}' infile
some text 2 b concatenated
some more text 2 concatenate in next string

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Old 05-31-2012
Another one:
Code:
awk -F= '/^Begin/{s=x}NF==2{s=s?s OFS $2:$2} /^End/ && s {print s}' file

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# 4  
Old 06-01-2012
Thanks both of you .. brilliant. Can you kindly explain your solution? It would be really helpful if there is slight change in the format of input file, plus , I am interested. Smilie
# 5  
Old 06-01-2012
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Originally Posted by Prev
Thanks both of you .. brilliant. Can you kindly explain your solution? It would be really helpful if there is slight change in the format of input file, plus , I am interested. Smilie
Sure.

Code:
awk -F= '/^Begin/{s=x}NF==2{s=s?s OFS $2:$2} /^End/ && s {print s}' file

Explanantion:
Code:
-F=

Set "=" as field separator

Code:
/^Begin/{s=x}

If the line begins with the word "Begin" set variable s to NOTHING (dummy variable x=empty)
Code:
NF==2{s=s?s OFS $2:$2}

If there are 2 fields (records with a "=") then if s is not empty then s=s OFS $2 or s=$2
OFS is the output field separator, a built-in variable. The default value is a space.
Code:
/^End/ && s {print s}

If The line begins with the word "End" and s is not empty print s
# 6  
Old 06-01-2012
Concatenate all data between two patterns
Great. Thanks. So, to concatenate all data(not jst the part after =) in a block (all lines b/w Begin .. and end .. line ) , I tried with
Code:
 awk '/^BEGIN/{s=x} {s=s?s OFS $NR:$NR} /^End/ && s {print s}' file

but it doesnt work ... Please guide again.
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-01-2012 at 06:11 AM.. Reason: quote tags -> code tags
# 7  
Old 06-01-2012
Something like this?
Code:
awk '/^Begin/{f=1}f;/^End/{f=0}' file
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