Awk Field Separators

[shun.cheung]

In article <3729 at se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> cubbage at se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Sharon Cubbage) writes:
>
>Does anybody know how to specify more than one field separator in Awk?
>I would like to specify to an Awk program to treat single spaces as well
>as bars as field separators so that a string such as :
>
>12 12 12 34|34|34
>
>will be said to have 6 fields.  I've tried to create a regular expression

This can be achieved by re-defining the field separator to be
a blank or a "|":

   FS = "[\ \|]"

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