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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:08:02 GMT
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I just tried this out on a file that is tab delimited.  The
following command:

  c:\hh45\>gawk 'BEGIN { RS = "\t" } ; { print $1 }' < hh45.txt

was supposed to pick out the first field of each line (which
contains blanks) and dump it.  It dumps other fields as individual
lines.

This is my first attempt at gawking, and I seem to have followed
the documentation.  What am I missing?  Yes, the tabs are in the
file - I put them there and checked that the editor had not
expanded them.

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