[ILUG] Gawk query

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Paschal Nee wrote:

> i.e. recognising that [] and "" enclose single fields.

Set the Output Record Seperator according to whether the 'special' 
delimiter set is open or not:

{
         open = 0;
         for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) {
           if ($i ~ /^[\["]/)
             ORS = " ";

           print $i;

           if ($i ~ /[\]"]$/) {
             ORS = "\n";
             print "";
           }
         }

         if (ORS = " ")
           ORS="\n"
}

This treats the special delimiters as equivalent, but i that's 
generally unparseable.

regards,
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