extracting "rest of line" in AWK
David C. Raines
davr at hrtix.UUCP
Tue Aug 29 01:13:56 AEST 1989
In article <9363 at chinet.chi.il.us>, john at chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt) writes:
> In article <3368 at blake.acs.washington.edu> mbader at cac.washington.edu (Mark Bader) writes:
> >Does anyone know of a way to extract the "rest of the line" in awk..
> >e.g. I have a line that looks like
> >
> >%% Heading "This is a Graph Heading"
> >
> >and I want to do a {print $3} to get the "This is a Graph Heading" part,
> >but this obviously dosen't work. Is there a way to do this?
How about:
for (v = 3; v <= NF; v++)
printf ("%s ", $v)
printf "\n"
or alternatively (if the quotes are always present), set FS='"' and print $2.
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