Solved print only the string from all line

January 29, 2015 at 09:35:02
Specs: Windows Vista
Hi.

Purpose, “print only the string from all line”

My example-file is:

Row, 1, first, a, a, a, a, a, NUMBER-100111, and, WORD-something, a, a
Row, 2, And, second, number, could, be, NUMBER-100222, and, WORD-something_else, b,
Row, 3, Last , line, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, NUMBER-100322, b ,b ,b ,b ,b ,b, WORD-hello
etc

“command should be:”
grep “NUMBER-xxxxxx” and “WORD-xxxxxxx” and print just NUMBER and WORD” > new_file

And new_file should be as below.

NUMBER-100111, WORD-something
NUMBER-100222, WORD-something_else
NUMBER-100322, WORD-hello

Is this possible?

BR

johan

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January 29, 2015 at 15:45:21
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It's possible, but not with just grep as grep returns the entire line if the NUMBER or WORD pattern exist. How about an awk script that cycles thru each field (Field Seperator is a comma) and captures the field if it starts with NUMBER of WORD:


#!/bin/ksh

# look at each field in the line.  Assume if each line has a NUMBER,
# it has a WORD
# using nawk because I'm using Solaris
nawk ' FS="," {
   gsub(" ","") # get rid of all spaces
   f1=""
   f2=""
   for (i=1; i<=NF; i++)
      {
      if( $i ~ /^NUMBER/)
         f1=$i
      if($i ~ /^WORD/)
         f2=$i
      }
   printf("%s,%s\n", f1, f2)
} ' examfile.txt

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January 29, 2015 at 18:18:04
Thank you for your prompt reply. Your rule works well.

BR
johan


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