[TriLUG] Need some help parsing a file

[R Radford]

The tr solution would also reduce repeated spaces in the filename, so would
not work in that (hopefully extreme, but legal) case.



On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:53 AM, John Vaughters <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> >Almost. Tom's ORIGINAL third line contains two tabs (\t or 011) in the
> >third line. Tabs got converted to spaces somewhere in the e-mail
> >processing. Doesn't work on that line if tabs are in place.
>
>
>
> Peter,
>
> You are keeping me on my feet. Test file contains the tab. I will say the
> tab is an unlikely situation for this type of output.
>
>  cat test | awk -F "[\040\011][,0-9]+[\040\011]" '{print $2}'
>
>
> This works with tab or space. But I have to admit, now I am getting to the
> point that I like to stay away from and that is complicated REGEX that is
> confusing to many that do not use it.
>
> Tom,
>
> I do like your tr solution very much. Some super minimal embedded products
> do not have awk (very few), but do have tr. It's always good to have the
> classic unix solutions on hand for my job.
>
> Thanks for sharing,
>
> John Vaughters
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