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Old 12-30-2008
awk gsub with 2 patterns on one line
I want to substitue 2 patterns with awk in one line.

The line looks like this:
<option> Nick Gilder - Hot child in the city </option>

I want to remove the <option> </option> fields

I try this, but it removes only the first pattern:
awk '{gsub(/^[ <option>]+|[ </option>]+$/,"");print}' nowplaying.txt

How to remove the last </option> field so the resulting line stays with:
Nick Gilder - Hot child in the city
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Old 12-30-2008
Code:
% awk -F'</?[^>]*>' '$2=$2'<<<'<option> Nick Gilder - Hot child in the city </option>'
  Nick Gilder - Hot child in the city

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Old 12-30-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by sdohn
I want to substitue 2 patterns with awk in one line.

The line looks like this:
<option> Nick Gilder - Hot child in the city </option>

I want to remove the <option> </option> fields

I try this, but it removes only the first pattern:
awk '{gsub(/^[ <option>]+|[ </option>]+$/,"");print}' nowplaying.txt

The pattern, [ <option>], only matches a single character. It matches any one of the characters between [ and ].
Quote:

How to remove the last </option> field so the resulting line stays with:
Nick Gilder - Hot child in the city

Code:
awk '{ gsub( "</*option>", "" ) ; print }'

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