Re: Removing text between braces

Frank wrote:
> 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.

If you store the lines in an array, you can simply write them
in the END section:

END {
for (i=1; i in Whole_File; i++ )
print Whole_File[ i ] >FILENAME }
The language Ruby has the in-place (-i) option.