On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:10:44AM +1100, Jacinta Richardson wrote:
> 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:
true bad cut and paste! but you don;t need the last \n as it is part of the
input line any way
>
> 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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