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From: Prashant TR <tr AT yahoo-inc DOT com>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Gawk (under DJGPP?)
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Date: 25 Mar 2002 09:30:01 +0530
In-Reply-To: CBFalconer's message of "Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:08:02 GMT"
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CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> writes:

> 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.

Replace RS with FS and try again :)

Prashant