This question does not seem to be related to the GnuWin32 port, and so I
think it is best asked on a gawk mailing list.
See e.g. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.awk
Kees Zeelenberg
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Van: "Hane, Christopher A" <christopher.h...@ingenixconsulting.com>
Datum: dinsdag 28 april 2009 0:26
Aan: <gnuwin32-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Onderwerp: [GnuWin32-Users] help with regexp in gawk file
>
> I am trying to remove all words in one list from another list of words.
> If I explicitly enumerate the words to remove everything works fine:
> gsub(/to /, "",text);
> gsub(/in /, "",text);
> gsub(/or /, "",text);
>
> but if I try to build the list of words in an array no substitutions are
> ever done. How can I properly format the text array to remove the
> words?
>
> Thanks!
>
> BEGIN{
>
> j=0;
> badwords[j++]= "/<a> /";
> badwords[j++]= "/<the> /";
> badwords[j++]= "/<in> /";
>
> text = "a fox jumped into and in the river";
> text2 = "a fox jumped into and in the river";
>
> gsub(/\<a\> /, "", text);
> gsub(/\<the\> /, "", text);
> gsub(/\<in\> /, "", text);
>
> print text;
>
> for (i in badwords)
> {
> gsub(badwords[i], "", text2);
>
> }
> print text2;
>
> exit(0);
> };
> {
> }
> END{}
>
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