[lug] awk question

Harris, James James_Harris at maxtor.com
Tue Jan 28 08:37:36 MST 2003


> Read the line.
> Loop over $i, merging any fields that start with " with the 
> next until you 
> have a field of the form "...".
> Now you have the proper set of fields.
> 

Ahh, neat -- that's the juice.  You're right, a bit of extra code, but
ultimately, that would probably do the job.  I think I'll give it a try and
see what I end up with.  At worst, I'll learn something. ;)

Thanks very much for the suggestion!
Jim



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