Re: [SLUG] sed

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On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:53:43AM -0700, Scotty Logan wrote:

> On Jun 2, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Eben King wrote:
> > I'm pretty good at regexes, but programming in sed is where I break
> down. How does one convert this:
> >
> > A1
> > B1
> > A2
> > B2
> > A3
> > B3
> > ...
> >
> > into this:
> >
> > A1 B1
> > A2 B2
> > A3 B3
> > ...
>
>
> Assuming the data's exactly like the example:
>
> % awk '/^A/{s=$1;}/^B/{print s,$1}' data-file

I was wondering how long it would be before someone brought up awk.

Paul

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