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I'm still beginner and maybe someone can help me.
I have this input:

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the great warrior a, b, c

and what i want to know is, with awk, how can i detect the string with 'warrior' string on it and print the a, b, and c seperately, become like this :

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Warrior Type
a
b
c

Im still very noob and what i'am already tried is:

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if($0 ~ /warrior/)
print "Warrior Type" $4 $5 $6

but, what if the input string become longer, like ?

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the great alexander warrior of turkey a,b,c

Anybody can give me some help?

First you need to define what separates the fields. Gvien your sample it appears to be either spaces or a comma or a combination of both, the field separator would need to be [ \t,]* and to print the last there fields you can use $(NF-2), $(NF-1) and $NF. To print the result on separate lines, also print newlines, or use separate print statements..[/CODE]

Thank you!
Can i ask more?
if my input become this:

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warrior a, b, c

And lastly, because there are three warrior a,b, and c, so what should i do to produce output :

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warrior= 3

so it can detect how many warrior there are.
Thanks for your help.

Response to your last question

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awk -F'[ \t,]*' '{print $1"="NF-1}'