Re: Less greedy pattern match

On 4/18/2008 3:06 PM, pk wrote:
<snip>
> After a bit of tweaking, it seems that the two cases can actually be
folded
> into a single body:
> 
> {for(i=m+1;i<=NF;i+=2){printf "%s",$i};
>  if (NF) {m=(NF%2==m)?1:0}
>  if (m==0) print""}
> 
> Not elegant as the gawk solution, but at least it should be standard.
> 

At least you got it in one script! Best I could come up with was a 2-pass
approach to turn all the searched-for patterns into a single char
(control-B in
this case for no particular reason) first and then use that as the RS:

awk '{$1=$1}1' FS='</?t1>' OFS=^B file | awk 'NR%2' RS=^B ORS=

	Ed.