time awk -F ';'  '/^TABLE/ {table=$2} /^COLUMN/ {printf("%s.%s\n",tabl
+e,$2) }' *
real    0m0.35s
user    0m0.29s
sys     0m0.05s


time perl -ne '/^TABLE;([^;\n]+)/ && ($table = $1) or /^COLUMN;([^;\n]
++)/ && print "$table.$1\n"' *
real    0m0.24s
user    0m0.21s
sys     0m0.03s

time perl -nle '/TABLE;(.*)/?($t=$1):/COLUMN;([^;]*)/&&print(qq{$t.$1}
+)' * 

real    0m4.88s
user    0m0.34s
sys     0m0.05s

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in thread regular expression to get the tablename.column_name by greatshots

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