Hi everyone,

this might be a really simple question, but :


i have a text file with multiple-line records in a format like this:

----------------------------
easting:      661674.9375
        northing:     4035004.0000
        elevation:         968.8617
distance along surface:               15.9540

        easting:      661683.7500
        northing:     4034946.7500
        elevation:         961.4768
distance along surface:               58.4077
-----------------------------


I am familiar with single-line records, and work with them in AWK quite frequently. However, i have yet to come upon an elegant solution to parsing something like the above file, such that i can assign each field in a multi-line record to a unique variable. a solution in AWK would be ideal, but i am open to tackle this problem with something like python.



any ideas?

thanks!

Dylan


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