Seamus Carr wrote:
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> I'm trying to count first occurrence of a pattern in a block of lines
> which have the same number in first field. I was using if statements to
> test the conditions. The problem is that it reads the pattern of every
> line, not skipping rest of the block if the pattern ha
Hi Seamus
Seamus Carr wrote:
> I'm trying to count first occurrence of a pattern in a block of lines
> which have the same number in first field.
'Count the first occurrence'? That would be '1' ;-)
> I was using if statements
> to test the conditions. The problem is that it reads the pattern of
