Re: PO-mode help, please

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Tim Morley (forstreku la legoman koloron de mia retadreso) wrote:
 > I need to find each record that includes the comment below:
 >    # FAKVORTO: MATEMATIKA
 >    msgid "Absolute Value"
 >    msgstr "Absoluta Valoro"
 >
 > It may appear as one of several comments, in which case I need to copy
 > over all of the comments:
 >    # Aux ALD (laux la franca AJT)? (Gian Piero SAVIO, 2004-04-02)
 >    # 'ALDONI' estas plej klara; 'ALD' iom malpli, do konservu la unuan.
 >    (Tim Morley, 2004-04-03)
 >    # FAKVORTO: MATEMATIKA
 >    msgid "ADD"
 >    msgstr "ALDONI"
 >
 > And the comments may not appear in any particular order:
 >    # Nur la franca uzas verban terminon, cxiuj aliaj uzas substantivan
 >    terminon. Atentu, "Combine" povus havi aritmetikan signifon, kies
 >    preciza traduko estas "Kombinacio" (mi intertempe kontrolis en PIV1).
 >    (Leo DC, 2004-08-13)
 >    # Vi pravas, ke estas cxiutaga kaj matematika sencoj por tiu vorto.
 >    Mi enmetos ambaux. (Tim Morley, 2004-09-23)
 >    # FAKVORTO: MATEMATIKA
 >    # PLURSENCAJXO
 >    # Kombinajxo
 >    msgid "Combination"
 >    msgstr "Kunigado"
 >
 > If somebody could suggest either an EMACS keyboard macro, or possibly a
 > SED or AWK script, that would spit out a text file containing all of the
 > above records from my collection of files, it would be a great help 
to me.

I think awk is the way to go:

awk '/^#/ {comment[c++] = $0}
      /^# FAKVORTO: MATEMATIKA/ {verify = 1}
      /^msgid/ {msgid = $0}
      /^msgstr/ {if (verify == 1) {
                   for (l=0; l<c; l++)
                     print comment[l]
                   print msgid
                   print
                   }
                 c = 0
                 verify = 0}'

-- 
Kevin Rodgers