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Old 07-01-2010
two delimiters with awk, one of them blank
Hello,

I need use comma and spaces as field delimiters, but I can't:

text:
Code:
hello myfriend,I need,some help

I need something like:

Code:
awk -F"<blank>|," '{print $1, $3}'

Thanks
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Old 07-01-2010
Code:
awk -F"[ ,]" '{print $1, $3}' file

# 3  
Old 07-01-2010
This also seems to work...

Code:
awk -F"[[:blank:],]" '{print $1, $3}' infile

# 4  
Old 07-01-2010
or to include tabs and to treat consecutive delimiters as one:

Code:
$ echo 'hello myfriend,I need,some help'| awk -F "[ \t,]*" '{print $1, $3}'
hello I

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