From: Ruby Newbee <rubynewbee@...>
Date: 2009-11-22T12:00:15+09:00
Subject: Re: How to match and count

Yes, thanks.

2009/11/22 Phrogz <phrogz@mac.com>:
> On Nov 21, 7:09 pm, Ruby Newbee <rubynew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> awk '{if ($4~/something/) {i+=1}} END {print i}'  file.txt
>>
>> That means if a line's 4th field match "something" then increase the
>> counter by 1.
>> How to write the corresponding ruby code?
>
> What is a 'field'? Whitespace delimited?
>
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