Awk Field Separators

[Robert Felps]

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
>to handle both cases but it hasn't been working.

Try nawk(SV3.2 or later) or gawk from GNU!

nawk 'BEGIN { FS = "[ |]" }
{
# awk program ...
}'

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