Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:15:15 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: for awk experts only. Message-ID: <20081130171515.GA25123@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <8763m535qm.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <20081130045944.GA94896@thought.org> <8763m535qm.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:47:29AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:59:51 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> > wordnet/wn prints the string "noun" out whereas I'd rather it simply
> > printed "n." Is there a way of making this substitution using awk?
> > (I've never used awk except as a cmdline filter.)
> >
> > The following fails:
> >
> > wn foot -over |grep Overview |awk
> > {if(!strcmp($3,"noun"))$3="n."; '{printf("%s %s\n", $4, $3);}}'
> >
> > If there are any shortcuts, please clue me in!
>
> Don't do this with a long stream of if/else/.../else blocks. AWK is a
> pattern based rule-language. You can apply different blocks of code to
> lines that match patterns like this:
>
> $3 ~ /adjective/ { print $1,"adj." }
> $3 ~ /noun/ { print $1,"n." }
> $3 ~ /verb/ { print $1,"v." }
Thank you! Would I enclose the three lines with "BEGIN", and end with an
"exit;" at the end?
>
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