On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:57:27 -0600, Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> wrote: >On 2/19/2013 3:14 AM, Steve Hayes wrote: >> In an earlier message I suggested using AWK to manipulate a GEDCOM file to >> solve a particular problem. >> >> That point tended to get lost in discussion of other points like using other >> ways to solve the problem, or discussion of flaws in the GEDCOM data model >> itself and proposals for its replacement, which I see as a separate question. >> >> What I would like to see is the development of a kind of library of AWK >> routines to manipulate GEDCOM files. Lots of genealogists have GEDCOM files, >> and some would like to make changes to them, or extract information from them >> in ways that might not be possible with other genealogy programs. >> >> Here is a GEDCOM file. >> >> I tried to choose a short one to use as an example, which shows the structure >> of the file. > >OK, so that's presumably a good, representative input file for an awk script to >run against. Now - what might an output file look like and (briefly!) why? Thanks Ed -- see my reply to Janis for a couple of examples. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk