On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 17:39 +0900, Torben M. Hansen wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Sorry about the last mail. I don't know what happened. I hope this is
> readable.
Just as readable as the first try, which looked fine here.
> I'm trying extract some data from a file using awk. However I get errors that
> I don't understand.
>
> My awk file looks like
> /= DATASET/ { ds = $3; }
> /xangst/ {if (ds == 1) {ln = 1; print $2,$3,$4 }}
> {if ((ln > 0) && (ln < 61)) {if (ln!=1) {print $1,$2,$3} ln+=1 }}
>
> and I execute it with
> awk -f crds.awk c60*.out
> but get the following error
> awk: crds.awk:3: /x
> awk: crds.awk:3: ^ invalid char '' in expression
You've probably got some strange non-printing character in your file.
What's the output of:
$ od -c crds.awk
Paul.
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