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Subject: Re: Gawk (under DJGPP?)
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:02:10 GMT
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Prashant TR wrote:
> 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 :)

Thanks, that does it.  Right under my nose all the time.  Eighteen
wet noodle lashes.

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