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Old 04-03-2013
awk - end of line - Help!

I have a textfile which I am parsing with awk. The lines do not have the same number of fields, so sometimes $3 is the last field, sometimes not.

When I do a 'printf("%s, %s\n", $2, $3)', if $3 is the last field in the line, when I cat the file the output looks something like this:
,someemail@someprovider.com

If I 'vi' the file it looks like this:
NAME^M^M,someemail@someprovider.com

Oh, and the textfile is a DOS file ported over to Unix. How can I get rid of those two newlines where $3 is the last field?
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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