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Old 09-18-2012
[Solved] Parsing countries file
Hi All
I would like to take contries for this file http://www.textfixer.com/resources/d...n-iso-html.txt and save it in another file with the following structure .
Afghanistan, Åland Islands , Albania, Algeria, American Samoa

Can anyone help me to do this ?
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Old 09-18-2012
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Originally Posted by molwiko
Hi All
I would like to take contries for this file http://www.textfixer.com/resources/d...n-iso-html.txt and save it in another file with the following structure .
Afghanistan, Åland Islands , Albania, Algeria, American Samoa

Can anyone help me to do this ?
try this..

Code:
awk -F "[<>]" '/<option/{ print $3}' ORS="," file

Last edited by pamu; 09-18-2012 at 06:16 AM..
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Old 09-18-2012
Try..
Code:
awk -F "[<>]" '/<option/ { printf "%s,", $3 }' file

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Old 09-18-2012
Thanks your solutions are working !
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