If I have an awk command
pattern { ... }
and pattern uses a capturing group, how can I access the string so captured in the block?
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If I have an awk command
pattern { ... }
and pattern uses a capturing group, how can I access the string so captured in the block?
That was a stroll down memory lane…
I replaced awk by perl a long time ago.
Apparently the AWK regular expression engine does not capture its groups.
you might consider using something like :
the -n flag causes perl to loop over every line like awk does.