hi monks,

i want to parse a text file in the following manner.

input:

sample.txt 

12345.pace
..........
..text1..
......
12345.slow
123456.pace
..........
..text2..
......
123456.slow
hyds.pace
..........
..bla bla bla..
uiw.slow

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Expected output:

i want to copy the text between each .pace and .slow pattern if and only if the pattern preceeding ".pace" & ".slow" are numbers and put it in to a new file which will have the name preceeding the corresponding .pace as the file name.

for example if i parse the above input file i need to get an output of 2 files with filenames 12345 & 123456 respectively. with the word "text1" inside file 12345 and "text2" inside file 123456 .

kindly help me out?

In reply to copying lines in a text file to a new file with a dynamically generated text name by seek_m

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