Re: How do I skip first match??

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From: tt
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:39

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"essbee" <spare_brain@yahoo.com> writes:

> Newbie help required for awk in skipping the first match.
> 
> I have a file that has two occurrences of "while(1)". I need to skip the
> first one and replace the second one with "while (x>MAXLOOP)" - how can I
> accomplish this?

awk '/while\(1\)/ && count++ { sub("while\(1\)","while(x>MAXLOOP)"}'

That will replace all occurrences except the first.
If you want to replace only the second (and skip possible 3rd &c), do

awk '/while\(1\)/ && ++count==2 ... '

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen

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Subject: Re: How do I skip first match??
Date: 31 May 2001 12:39:36 +0300
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