Assigning output columns from multiple lines to distinct variables?

Question

Below you find output of my awk and sed commands that I use to extract 2 lines output from an xml file. I have to assign the host-names and port-names to 4 distinct variables so I can use these to do further inquires. Can you assist?

cat file | awk | sed produces two lines below

Address host1  port_1  Address
BackupAddress host2 port_2  BackupAddress

Desired output

hosta="host1"
porta="port_1"
hostb="host2"
portb="port_2"

I would appreciate and welcome a detailed explanation with your resolution.

Answer 1

Use awk:

awk '
  /^Address/       { print "hosta=\""$2"\"\nporta=\""$3"\"" }
  /^BackupAddress/ { print "hostb=\""$2"\"\nportb=\""$3"\"" }' file

or, use a variable to hold the double quote to reduce clutter:

awk -v q='"' '
  /^Address/       { print "hosta="q$2q"\nporta="q$3q }
  /^BackupAddress/ { print "hostb="q$2q"\nportb="q$3q }' file

I am not sure what code you are using currently. If you have already written it in awk, you could probably incorporate the above logic there as well.