AWK GChat parser

Companion code for this post: http://evanmuehlhausen.com/analyze-gchat-transcripts-in-awk/

To run it:

gawk -f parse_gchat.awk transcript.txt

You should see:

me:  59 words  (59%),  290 characters  (58%)
Jose: 41 words  (41%),  207 characters  (41%)
exchanges: 14
duration: 20 minutes
dead_time: 6 minutes

To run it on your own transcript, pull up the chat log in Gmail, press print and then cut and paste it into a text file:

gawk -f parse_gchat.awk my_transcript.txt