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Old 10-08-2014
Regex to include up to blank line.
Hi guys I am trying to figure out how to match a pattern with a regex up to a full blank line. I will show you what I mean with this example:

Code:
example A
movie name: ted
movie name: TMNT
movie name: Jinxed

example B
movie names:
Gravity
Faster
Turbo

song titles:
dont
hello
problem

So above example A seems ok to do, just match "name:". But example B the names are on the next line so I was thinking if I was able to match "names{0,1}:" up to a full blank line so it would go up as far as this:
Code:
movie names:
Gravity
Faster
Turbo

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ regex should end here (blank line)
song titles:

Any ideas guys?
# 2  
Old 10-08-2014
not sure what you want for the output, but here's the start:
Code:
awk -v RS='' '{print "record-> [" $0 "]\n"}' myFile

# 3  
Old 10-08-2014
Thanks for the respone. The output would be like this
Code:
example A

ted
TMNT
Jinxed

example B

Gravity
Faster
Turbo

# 4  
Old 10-08-2014
what OS are you on?
What version of awk are you using? gawk by any chance?
# 5  
Old 10-08-2014
Im using open suse, awk version 4.1.0
# 6  
Old 10-08-2014
you have inconsistent format of the 'movie names' and "move name". Here's how to accommodate both. (Somehow gawk's RS='' doesn't work as described in 'man gawk' - makes the code a bit hairy):
Code:
 gawk '/^movie name/{n=split($0,a,ORS); if ($2=="names:") {for(i=2;i<=n;i++) print a[i]} else {for(i=1;i<=n;i++) print substr(a[i],index(a[i],": ")+2)}}' RS='' myFile

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# 7  
Old 10-08-2014
Her is another awk approach:

Code:
awk '/^movie name/ {
   gsub("[^\n]+: *",x)
   l=split($0,a,ORS)
   for(i=1;i<=l;i++) if(a[i]) print a[i]
}' RS='' infile

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