So, I'm having a lot of crazy problems with Awk that I cannot understand. This one in particular is driving me nuts. Here is one section of my Awk script:
and here is the single line that is in the datafile I am working with:
I am trying to simply delete the word, "May", and do nothing else. I have tried this a few different ways, using a double-quoted string instead of RegExp, and the output was exactly the same. Here is the output I am getting:
You can see that after running the script, I am somehow getting a very weird result. The word "May" has been stripped from the second field, but somehow all of the commas have also been stripped from the output.
For the record I am using Gawk under Ubuntu. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Here is a more complete explanation. This is the datafile:
This is the AWK script:
And, here are the two output lines, printed before and after the block of code pertaining to the months above.
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