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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Marc Wandschneider <marcw@lanfear.com>
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Subject: Re: AWK trivia
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On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 08:22:07PM +0200, Marc Wandschneider wrote:
> 
> so, i have a file in the following format:
> 
>     SOME_SINGLE_WORD STRING            "A quoted String"
> 
> Where the two things are separated by any amount of whitespace, not
> including \n.

<off the top of my head awk & sed games>

I would try something like:

    % sed -e 's/[ ^I]*/:/'

to make the first part of the line (the one including
SOME_SINGLE_WORD_STRING, in your example) be separated from the rest of
the line by a single ':' character.

Then it should be fairly easy to have AWK print what you want.

    % cat format.awk
    {
	printf "$1 = %s\n", $1;
	printf "$2 = ";
	for (i = 2; i < NF; i++) {
	    printf "%s%s", $i, FS;
	}
	printf "%s\n", $NF;
    }

and fire up awk with something like:

    % sed -e 's/[ ^I]*/:/' | awk -f format.awk -F:

Ciao,
Giorgos.


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