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Old 10-01-2007
Computer Debug an Awk Script

I would like to extract the following fields from the text file attached. I copied the contents from a pdf file and pasted them into the text file so I can use awk to extract them. The layout is as listed below.

name1,name2,name3,name4,Title,designation,nationality,dob,
national identication,address,listed On,Other information


The problem is if I remove the comments in the script I seem to get nothing in the out put file. Please help I'm new to awk programming and its baffling me. And some of the information that I'm extracting is in the wrong columns. What am I doing wrong ? Please advice. I'm new to this language

1) This is the script

Code:
  BEGIN { print "name1,name2,name3,name4,Title,designation,nationality,dob,national identication,address,listed On,Other information";Title=""; dob=""; nationality="";
  }
/*Name(:?)/ {

    if (Title != "" )
    {
      printf ",%s",Title;
      Title=" ";
    }
    if (designation != "" )
    {
      printf ",%s",designation;
      designation=" ";
    }
    if (nationality != "" )
    {
      printf ",%s",nationality;
      nationality=" ";
    }
    if (dob != "" )
    {
      printf ",%s\n",dob;
      dob=" ";
    }
    line = $0;
    gsub(/[[:digit:]]+:/,"",line);
    gsub(/[[:digit:]]+\./,"",line);
    sub(/*Name:/,"",line);
    sub(/*Name/,"",line);
    split(line,names);
    x = 1;
    while (x<=3)
    {
      printf "%s,", names[x];
      x++;
    }
    printf "%s", names[x];
    name1 = $4;
    name2 = $6;
    name3=$8;
    name4=$10;
}
##--> Add title field
/Title:/ {
  line=$0;
  idx1 = index(line,"Title:");
  idx2 = index(line,"Designation:");
  if (idx2==0)
  {
    idx2 = length(line)+1;
  }
  Title = substr(line, idx1+length("Title:"), idx2 - idx1 - length("Title:") );
  sub(",",";",Title)
}

##--> Add Designation
/Designation:/ {
  line=$0;
  idx1 = index(line,"Designation:");
  idx2 = index(line,"DOB:");
  if (idx2==0)
  {
    idx2 = length(line)+1;
  }
  designation = substr(line, idx1+length("Designation:"), idx2 - idx1 - length("Designation:") );
  sub(",",";",designation)
}

/*Nationality: / {
  line = $0;
  idx1 = index(line,"*Nationality: ");
  idx2 = index(line,"Passport");
  nationality = substr(line, idx1+length("*Nationality: "), idx2 - idx1 - length("*Nationality: ") );
  sub(",",";",nationality)
}
/DOB:/ {
  line=$0;
  idx1 = index(line,"DOB:");
  idx2 = index(line,"POB");
  if (idx2==0)
  {
    idx2 = length(line)+1;
  }
  dob = substr(line, idx1+length("DOB:"), idx2 - idx1 - length("DOB:") );
  sub(",",";",dob)
}
##/National identification no.:/ {
  ##line=$0;
  ##idx1 = index(line,"National identification no.:");
  ##idx2 = index(line,"Address");
  ##if (idx2==0)
  ##{
  ##  idx2 = length(line)+1;
  ##}
  ##dob = substr(line, idx1+length("National identification no.:"), idx2 - idx1 - length("National identification no.:") );
  ##sub(",",";",National identification no)
##}

##/Title:/ {context="title"; printf "%s:",context}


Last edited by vino; 10-01-2007 at 07:08 AM.. Reason: Added code tags.
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Old 10-01-2007
Have added More fields (New layout)

name1,name2,name3,name4,Title,designation,nationality,dob,POB,
Good quality a.k.a ,Low quality a.k.a,national identication,address,listed On,Other information
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