From: Ignacio Vidal (ividal@BIYCSA.COM.AR)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 15:11:08 EDT
Maybe using awk with an internal variable that counts the occurence of
"A" until occurence of "> uniquestringABC" ?
Regards
Ignacio
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Taylor, David [mailto:DTaylor@WBMI.COM]
> Enviado el: miércoles, 17 de julio de 2002 15:03
> Para: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Asunto: How can I search only a portion of a file?
>
>
> Hi *
>
> Let's say that I have a file with the following contents:
>
> --------------------------------------
> A
> A
> B
> A
> uniquestringABC
> A
> B
> B
> A
> -------------------------------------
>
> How can I count the number of instances of 'A' up to the
> occurrence of
> uniquestringABC? How about the instances ~after~ uniquestringABC?
>
> There has to be an easier way than splitting the file at
> uniquestringABC and
> counting the separate files.
>
> TIA
>
> David
>
> David Taylor
> Senior Software Systems Engineer
> West Bend Mutual Insurance
> (262) 335-7077
> dtaylor@wbmi.com
>
>
>
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