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Subject: Re: AWK trivia
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:07:56 +0200
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>
> <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.
>

    thanks for the suggestions -- in the end, given that i was also hoping
to support strings wrapping over newlines, i just wrote a 30 line c program
to do it instead :-)

    marc.




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