[gnuwin32 - Help] RE: gawk treats pipe FS-delimiters inconsistently

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By: lowella

Yes, you're doing something wrong.  The pipe symbol '|' is the regex alternation
operator so you are telling gawk that the field separator is either 'a bunch
of blanks' or 'a bunch of blanks'; so gawk does exactly what you ask it to do.

Try FS=" *[|] *" and you should see a difference--[] is used to create a character
list.  However, based on how your data is structured and the regex FS seperator,
field $1 will be null so your code won't print the column with NULLs in it.
You probably want to use print $2, $3, $4, $5, $6.


HTH

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