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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk split doesn't work for empty delimiter Post 302272431 by Orbix on Tuesday 30th of December 2008 02:49:33 PM
Old 12-30-2008
Awk split doesn't work for empty delimiter

Does anyone know how will I make awk's split work with empty or null separator/delimiter?

Code:
echo ABCD | awk '{ split($0,arr,""); print arr[1]; }'

I need output like:
HTML Code:
A
B
C
D
I am under HP-UX
 

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