RE: Awk to extract contact and put into pipe delimited file

Rod Smart wrote:
> Geoffrey Scott wrote:
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>> Got another curly one for the script experts amongst us...
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>> I need to extract contact details from emails that are sent in plain
>> text formatted thus:=20
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>> Sender's IP Address =3D 203.465.229.57

>> }
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>> /^Email/ {
>> mail =3D ($2)
>> print nam "|" bus "|" post "|" suburb "|" postc "|" state "|" tel
>> "|" mob "|" mail }
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>> But it doesn't print anything into the output file.  Why would that
>> be? I'm guessing that it is something to do with the formatting of
>> the original text.  Any ideas?=20
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>>        Regards Geoff
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>     May be too simple, or I'm wrong, 50% chance :P
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>     The print is inside the "Email" search item
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> /^Email/ {
> mail =3D ($2)
> print nam "|" bus "|" post "|" suburb "|" postc "|" state "|" tel "|"
> mob "|" mail
> }
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>     Maybe it should have been here ?
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> /^Email/ {
> mail =3D ($2)
> }
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> print nam "|" bus "|" post "|" suburb "|" postc "|" state "|" tel "|"
> mob "|" mail=20

The example I found on the net had it listed as part of the last regex
and definition of what was going to be printed.  It did actually work
for me with a previous bit of text that was formatted in a different way
which I had success with.  I went over this for ages trying to figure
out what was wrong and couldn't find it.  During all of this I had gone
and used Vim's replace function to format the text in the source file a
bit nicer and take out all the spaces and dashes and crap.  Just now I
tried running the awk script on that text and it worked!  So I'm still
in the dark as to why it is working now and what I did to fix it.   I
hate lucky flukes, I won't know how to reproduce it in the future.....

Regards Geoff