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If every field is surrounded by quotes, then try this: FS = "\",\"" For every line, you'll need this: gsub( /^"|"$/, "" )

awk -v target=$lines 'NR == target' file1 >> file2

{ for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) s[i] += $i } END { for (i=2; i in s; i++) { printf "%s%f", x, s[i] x = " " } }

I'm glad you were able to fix it. Another approach would be to make sure that every client has a ".". server = substr($2,1,index($2 ".", ".")-1)

Can you give a more detailed description of the problem? Or show some input data from which the program generates bad output?

This should get you started. BEGIN { FS = ": +" } "Client" == $1 { server = substr($2,1,index($2,".")-1) keys[ server ]++ } "Policy" == $1 { data[ server, "policy" ] = $2 } "Backup Time" == $1 { data[ server, "time" ] = $2 } "Elapsed Time" == $1 { data[ server,"elapsed"] += secs($2) }...

I shortened Feherke's code: awk 'ORS=NF>4?FS:RS' myfile

Putting a program on the command-line is usually harder in windows than under unix. This should work. gawk "length($0)<100{$0=sprintf(\"%-100s\",$0)}1" input_file If you have mawk, try mawk "length($0)<100{$0=sprintf('%-100s',$0)}1" input_file Another way to feed a program to awk: echo...

Under Solaris, use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk. This will preserve the spacing between columns. Put in file "convertfields.awk" and run with /usr/xpg4/bin/awk -f convertfields.awk /foo # Produces array of nonmatching and matching # substrings. The size of the array will # always be an odd number. The...

I got the impression the o.p. was running under windoze, where the user has to press <Enter> after running "date". Maybe he can clarify this.

system( "echo.|date" )

awk '/BEGIN/,/END/{next}1' file works with awk, gawk, and mawk (I just tested it). You're probably using something antique and obsolete. If you have nawk, use it instead of awk because on some systems awk is very old and lacks many useful features. Under Solaris, use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk. And of...

awk '/BEGIN/,/END/{next}1'

Glad you liked it. [thumbsup2]

BEGIN { target = "KnownString" } /^\+/ { sub( /^\+/, "" ); line = line $0 ; next } { process( line ) line = $0 } END { process( line ) } function process( line ) { split( line, ary, /[ \t]+/ ) for (i=1; i in ary; i++) { if (target == ary[i]) print ary[i+1] } }