Question

I have this data in my file

 65 ---
 66 FieldType: Text
 67 FieldName: STATE
 68 FieldNameAlt: STATE
 69 FieldFlags: 4194304
 70 FieldJustification: Left
 71 FieldMaxLength: 2
 72 ---
 73 FieldType: Text
 74 FieldName: ZIP
 75 FieldNameAlt: ZIP
 76 FieldFlags: 0
 77 FieldJustification: Left
 78 ---
 79 FieldType: Signature
 80 FieldName: EMPLOYEE SIGNATURE
 81 FieldNameAlt: EMPLOYEE SIGNATURE
 82 FieldFlags: 0
 83 FieldJustification: Left
 84 ---
 85 FieldType: Text
 86 FieldName: Name_Last
 87 FieldNameAlt: LAST
 88 FieldFlags: 0
 89 FieldValue: Billa
 90 FieldJustification: Left
 91 ---

How can i make that a array and store as key value pair in array like

array['fieldtype']
array['fieldName']

for all the objects.

i think the separater is only “—” but i don’t know how can i do that

Answer 1

Here’s one way with GNU awk. It splits the input into records which can then be worked on.

parse.awk

BEGIN {
  RS = " +[0-9]+ +---\n"
  FS = "\n"
}

{
  for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {             # for each line
    sf = split($i, a, ":")
    if(sf > 1) {                     # only accept successfully split lines
      sub("^ +[0-9]+ +", "", a[1])   # trim key
      sub("^ +", "",  a[2])          # trim value
      array[a[1]] = a[2]             # save into array hash
    }
  }
}

{
  print "Record: " NR
  for(k in array) {
    print k " -> " array[k]
  }
  print ""
}

Save the above into parse.awk and run it like this:

awk -f parse.awk infile

Where infile contains the data you want to parse. Output:

Record: 1

Record: 2
FieldFlags -> 4194304
FieldNameAlt -> STATE
FieldJustification -> Left
FieldType -> Text
FieldMaxLength -> 2
FieldName -> STATE

Record: 3
FieldFlags -> 0
FieldNameAlt -> ZIP
FieldJustification -> Left
FieldType -> Text
FieldMaxLength -> 2
FieldName -> ZIP

Record: 4
FieldFlags -> 0
FieldNameAlt -> EMPLOYEE SIGNATURE
FieldJustification -> Left
FieldType -> Signature
FieldMaxLength -> 2
FieldName -> EMPLOYEE SIGNATURE

Record: 5
FieldFlags -> 0
FieldNameAlt -> LAST
FieldJustification -> Left
FieldType -> Text
FieldMaxLength -> 2
FieldValue -> Billa
FieldName -> Name_Last