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# 8  
Old 04-14-2008
The same thing that Franklin52 :
Code:
awk -F'[<>]' '$2=="Pattern" && ++occ==3 {print "string="$3; exit}' file

Jean-Pierre.
# 9  
Old 04-14-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{FS="<|>"}/<Pattern>/{c++}c==3{print "string="$3}' file

Regards
mm..I'm not very familiar with awk, but it's not giving what I want.
it outputs something like:

string=\Pattern>
string=
string=
# 10  
Old 04-14-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by aigles
The same thing that Franklin52 :
Code:
awk -F'[<>]' '$2=="Pattern" && ++occ==3 {print "string="$3; exit}' file

Jean-Pierre.
mm..I get an empty output.
# 11  
Old 04-14-2008
No problem on my AIX box.
Code:
$ cat pattern.txt
<Pattern>file<\Pattern>
<Pattern>file2<\Pattern>
..
<Pattern>file3<\Pattern>
..
<Pattern>file4<\Pattern>

$ awk -F'[<>]' '$2=="Pattern" && ++occ==3 {print "string="$3; exit}' pattern.txt
string=file3
$

Try with nawk instead of awk.

@Franklin52
Your solution prints lines from the 3rd occurence of pattern to the end of the file (I haven't detect the problem when i first read your post).

Jean-Pierre.
# 12  
Old 04-14-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by aigles
No problem on my AIX box.
Code:
$ cat pattern.txt
<Pattern>file<\Pattern>
<Pattern>file2<\Pattern>
..
<Pattern>file3<\Pattern>
..
<Pattern>file4<\Pattern>

$ awk -F'[<>]' '$2=="Pattern" && ++occ==3 {print "string="$3; exit}' pattern.txt
string=file3
$

Try with nawk instead of awk.

@Franklin52
Your solution prints lines from the 3rd occurence of pattern to the end of the file (I haven't detect the problem when i first read your post).

Jean-Pierre.
THANK YOU~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Smilie
# 13  
Old 04-14-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by aigles
No problem on my AIX box.
Code:
$ cat pattern.txt
<Pattern>file<\Pattern>
<Pattern>file2<\Pattern>
..
<Pattern>file3<\Pattern>
..
<Pattern>file4<\Pattern>

$ awk -F'[<>]' '$2=="Pattern" && ++occ==3 {print "string="$3; exit}' pattern.txt
string=file3
$

Try with nawk instead of awk.

@Franklin52
Your solution prints lines from the 3rd occurence of pattern to the end of the file (I haven't detect the problem when i first read your post).

Jean-Pierre.
It works fine for me, did you try it? It prints only if c==3 but with an exit statement it's faster for a big file.

Regards
# 14  
Old 04-14-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
It works fine for me, did you try it? It prints only if c==3 but with an exit statement it's faster for a big file.

Regards
Your command prints line for the 3rd occurrence of Pattern and for all following lines until next occurence of Pattern.
Adding the exit statement resolves the problem.

Code:
$ cat pattern.txt
<Pattern>file<\Pattern>
<Pattern>file2<\Pattern>
..
<Pattern>file3<\Pattern>
.. 
...
....<Pattern>file4<\Pattern>

$ awk 'BEGIN{FS="<|>"}/<Pattern>/{c++}c==3{print "string="$3}' pattern.txt
string=file3
string=
string=
string=
$ awk 'BEGIN{FS="<|>"}/<Pattern>/{c++}c==3{print "string="$3;exit}' pattern.txt
string=file3
$

Jean-Pierre.
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