Setting the field seperator in awk(1)
Arnold Robbins
arnold at audiofax.com
Sat Oct 20 03:33:20 AEST 1990
In article <2453 at linac.fnal.gov> palkovic at linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic) writes:
>I would like to set the field separator in awk(1) so that in addition
>to the default separator I could include a comma with white space,
>as well as the default case, which is just white space.
You have to have either nawk or gawk for this; old awk won't work. Assuming
you have nawk or gawk, all you need is
FS = "[ \t,]+"
This says that fields are separated by runs of one or more blanks, tabs,
or commas. The (current) AWK language says that if FS == " ", it's a
special case, and is treated as if FS were "[ \t]+", i.e. runs of blanks
and/or tabs.
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