Other Language - Help with AWK !!!

Hi all,
I am completely new to awk. I really need some help.
I want to write a script to suppress all the lines between "reference1" and "reference2"

I tried something like:

BEGIN {doprint=0}
{
match($0,"reference1") == 1 {doprint=0;};
match($0,"reference2") == 1 {doprint=1;} ;
if (doprint==1){print $0} }
}


without success.
Anyone can help ?


thanks a lot !!!!

Julien

You can do this more easily with sed:

sed -n '/reference1/,/reference2/p' filename

The -n flag suppresses the default behaviour of printing every line.

/regex1/,regex2/p prints the lines from the one that matches regex1 up to the one that matches regex2.

Your awk program should also work I think, but is a bit verbose. You can simplify it to this:

Variables are magically created when first used and initialised to 0 or "" depending on the context.
You can match lines using /regex/ instead of using the match function.

Dave

Just one other thing: put a better title in your questions, like what you really need and please put the code tags on your code.
Like this:


Thanks!