[SOLVED] Is there any way to read 2 next lines into pattern space when a pattern is matched?

Issue

I have the following data file:

Name: ABC 
Address: 123, 4th Street,  
My County,
    
    
10009 Country. 
Age: 34 
Gender: Male
    
    
Name: DEF 
Address: 456, Orange Street,
    

North State,
    
45678 Country. 
Age: 68 
Gender: Female

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Basically, each record is separated by 2 empty lines. The problem is some "Address" will contain 2 empty lines too (see example above).

How can I replace the valid "2 empty lines" separator with say "#####", but leave the 2 empty lines in the "Address" field untouched (as is)?

Thanks.

I tried various "sed" commands with N options and "awk" commands, but nothing works so far :(

Solution

Assuming that each record ends with a Gender: line then you can do something like:

 awk '{if(NR<=n)next;print $0}/Gender/{print"######";n=NR+2}' yourfile.txt

Answered By - JNevill

Answer Checked By - Timothy Miller (WPSolving Admin)