On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:15:10PM +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> >What you've written is mostly incoherent and incomprehensible.
>
> heh, been a long day:)
>
> Actually I am using gawk "/string1/ && /string2/ { print substr( $1, length($1) - 1, length($1) ) }"
> which gets me what I need, the last two characters of the first
The final parameter to substr() isn't needed (and would only be "2" for what
you wanted)
> field of a specific match...
Well, it's only printing the first field, not necessarily the field that
matched.
eg
$ echo hello there everyone | awk '/there/ && /everyone/ { print substr($1,length($1)-1) }'
lo
You need to do $1 ~ /regex/ if you only want to test against the first field
--
rgds
Stephen