Question

I m trying to get a next field after matching field using awk.

Is there an option to do that or do I need to scan the record into array then check each field in array and print the one after that?

What I have so far:

The file format is:

<FIELD><separator "1"><VALUE><separator "1"><FIELD><separator "1"><VALUE>

... and so on, field|value pairs are repeated, will be at least one pair in line or multiple pairs <10 per line

dat.txt:

FIELDA01VALUEA01FIELDA21VALUEA21FIELDA31VALUEA3
FIELDB01VALUEB01FIELDB21VALUEB21FIELDB31VALUEB3
FIELDC01VALUEC01FIELDC21VALUEC21FIELDC31VALUEC3
FIELDD01VALUED01FIELDD21VALUED21FIELDD31VALUED3
FIELDE01VALUEE01FIELDE21VALUEE21FIELDE31VALUEE3

With simple awk script which prints the second field on a line matching FIELDB2:

#!/bin/awk -f

BEGIN { FS = "1" }
/FIELDB2/ { print $2 }

Running the above:

> ./scrpt.awk dat.txt

Gives me:

VALUEB0

This is because the line that match:

FIELDB01VALUEB01FIELDB21VALUEB21FIELDB31VALUEB3

When split into records looks:

FIELDB0 VALUEB0 FIELDB2 VALUEB2 FIELDB3 VALUEB3

From which the second field is VALUEB0

Now I don t know which FIELDXX will match but I would like to print the next record on the line after FIELDXX that matched, in this specific example when FIELDB2 matches I need to print VALUEB2.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can match the line, then loop over the fields for a match, and print the next record:

awk -F1  /FIELDB2/ { for (x=1;x<=NF;x++) if ($x~"FIELDB2") print $(x+1) }

Answer 2

No need for slowing things down using a loop :)

awk -F1  /FIELDB2/ {f=NR} f&&NR-1==f  RS="1" file
VALUEB2

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