Awk Field Separators

[Thomas Omerzu]

In article <1990Aug22.054330.24911 at iwarp.intel.com>
merlyn at iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) 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
[...]
|
|There's no easy way to handle it in plain Awk.  (Alright everyone, what's
|the next phrase... come along now...) Get Perl.
[...]

And, if you aren't lucky (?) enough to have
Perl, you might use
	sed 's/|/ /g' | awk ...

So you will only have to deal with one field separator in Awk.




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