Alexander Samad wrote:
Haven't seen the previous emails but what about
sed -e 's/\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):\(.*\)/Question number \1\n\2\n\3'
or even
awk -F : '/^.+$/ {print "Question number "$1"\n"$2"\n"$3}'
Very cool. Although probably not going to help the OP learn how to program.
Your sed program is missing it's final /. Also you're missing the double
newline between Questions. Adding this gives:
sed -e 's/\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):\(.*\)/Question number \1\n\2\n\3\n/'
awk -F : '/^.+$/ {print "Question number "$1"\n"$2"\n"$3"\n"}'
Compared with the equivalent Perl one-liner:
perl -F: -anle 'print "Question number ",join "\n",@F,"";'
I think the Perl golf wins. ;) Which is cute, because I honestly thought awk
would.
All the best,
J
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