Re: Less greedy pattern match

Ed Morton escreveu:
> 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=
> 
Notwithstanding, a very elegant solution as it is runnable as one liner!