Hi all,
I have a big log file that looks like this:
/I/Start/info/logId(1)
/I/Start/info/logId(1)
/W/other stuff/
/I/Start/info/logId(2)
/I/Start/info/logId(2)
:
:
/W/more stuff/
/W/other stuff/
/I/End/info/logId(1)
/I/End/info/logId(1)
/W/more stuff/
/W/other stuff
:
/I/End/info/logId(2)
/I/End/info/logId(2)
the 4 rows that have Start and End in the beginning are all parts of
the same log item if they have the same logId(n). In my example above
there are 2 log pairs (logId(1) and logId(2)).
So I need to gather information from these 4 lines and put store this
as information in another file. So my idea is to create a awk program
that will:
serach for regex '/I/Start' and read the logId
browse the rest of the log file for the End logs with the same logId
when all log lines are found and the information stored and printed
continue on in the log file. Just make sure that the logId has not
been used before.
My problem is to understand how I shall do the "browsing" in the input
file. this is what I mean: if I find the first Start log on line 5, if
I use getline to parse the rest of the input file and if I find the
End log online 34, how do I continue from line 6 for the next
"search"? as far as I understand using getline will have the effect
that the program will look at line 35 for the next Start log thus
missing all logs between 6 and 33, or did I missunderstand?
/di98mase
