AWK Question

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <281 at nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>, frank at hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Frank G. Fiamingo) writes:
|  My problem is that I want to check a particular character
|  position in a record to see whether or not it is a blank.
|  [ ... ]

|  BEGIN {FS=""}
|  {split($0,array);
|  if (array[28] == " ") {array[28] = 0};
|  for(i in array) print array[$1]}

|  [ ... ]
|  Can anyone tell me where I've gone wrong, or a better way
|  to do this?

One liner:
	substr($0,28,1) == " " { print }
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