Re: Removing text between braces

"Janis Papanagnou" <Janis_Papanagnou@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> awk '/{/,/}/ { next } 1'

Thanks!  That worked like a charm & much easier than my solution :)

One final question:  is there an option in gawk that allows you to modify a
file in-place (like SED's -i option)?  In my original script I was closing
the original file and then writing over it (since I had already read
everything into an array).  I'm using GNU Awk 3.1.0 and I don't see any such
option.

Frank wrote:
> "Janis Papanagnou" <Janis_Papanagnou@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:cqv8sp$e0p$2@online.de...
> 
>
> Thanks!  That worked like a charm & much easier than my solution :)
>
> One final question:  is there an option in gawk that allows you to modify 
a
> file in-place (like SED's -i option)?  In my original script I was closing
> the original file and then writing over it (since I had already read
> everything into an array).  I'm using GNU Awk 3.1.0 and I don't see any su
ch
> option.

I either don't know of any awk option; you'll have to do a file move, e.g.

awk '...' <orig >new ; mv new orig

If you insist to do it inplace you may want to use perl instead of awk.
Your choice.

Janis