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I am trying to print out sentences that meets a regular expression in awk (I’m open to using other tools, too).

I got the regular expression I want to use,

Code:

"([^)(]\+ [0-9]\{4\})"

from user ripat in a grep forum. Unfortunately with grep I couldn't print only the sentence.

While searching for awk solutions as suggested I came across this: filtering - How to print out a specific field in AWK? - Stack Overflow
which states “

Code:

awk '/word1/'

will print out the whole sentence" I also looked else-were including the man page for direct sentence retrieval with no luck.

I tried

Code:

$ awk '/([^)(]\+ [0-9]\{4\})/' BioPsych10.txt

and

Code:

$ awk '/"([^)(]\+ [0-9]\{4\})"/' BioPsych10.txt

but they returned nothing.

The text I am searching through is at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4235339/BioPsych10.txt

Thank you,
DanBroz

I think you are missing the printing part in awk

Why don't you try like this??

Code:

 awk '/pattern/ {print $0}' file

I can not download the file to download.
Do you like to find the exact match of the string "([^)(]\+ [0-9]\{4\})", or is this a search pattern?

Example string:

Code:

sfgs grg wrrefg wreg wre "([^)(]\+ [0-9]\{4\})"rwe trt wre 
wretrtwretwret  ret rt wretwret wret 
wt wret wretrt wret wret  rt wretw rett254t 5 tt

and you like the hits of line #1?

It is a search pattern.
trying downloading the file here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4235339/BioPsych10.txt

The regex: "([^)(]\+ [0-9]\{4\})" is not extended regex but GNU basic regex...
This is the same with POSIX extended regex:

Code:

grep -Eo '\([^)]+ [0-9]{4}\)' infile

if your grep supports the -o option then it will return the occurrences on a single line. Without the -o option (just grep -E) it will return the results on a single line plus the line the pattern was found on...

Likewise awk:

Code:

awk '/\([^)]+ [0-9]{4}\)/' infile

Would return the pattern plus the line it was found on:

Try something like this for multi-line results:

Code:

awk 'NR>1 && $1~/^[^)]+ [0-9]{4}$/{print RS $1 FS}' RS=\( FS=\) infile

GNU awk prior to 4.0 does not support repetition ({4}) by default. Use (g)awk --posix

This seems to not return the complete sentence.

It would work if I managed the carriage returns of the file by first deleting them then adding new lines
after every “).” The very talented user ripat told the first part by

Code:

 tr -d '\n' < file |

tl/dr need code to add a newline after every “).”

Please post relevant text on this site, not external sites. The external site will age out the text post, then some future searcher will not have a clue as what this thread is really about.

In fact it went to lala land (404) just now..... Nobody can effectively help you now.

Thank you.