Need Help - Going Crazy With AWK

[rickcfl]

Can anyone tell me how to extract only the text between two patters from a record and store it in a variable? Thanks in advance for any help here...

 

[PHV]

In your awk manual have a look at the sub function.
You may also consider the match and substr functions.

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[feherke]

Hi

Or depending on the context setting the [tt]FS[/tt] may also help :

[blue]master #[/blue] echo 'Who the ( censored ugly word ) is Alice ?' | awk -F'\\(|\\)' '{print$2}'
 censored ugly word

Feherke.

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