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# 22  
Old 05-19-2015
So change FS=";" in your script to FS=' *; *' and try again.
# 23  
Old 05-19-2015
Thanks a lot it's working fine.
# 24  
Old 05-19-2015
Add a gsub (" ",""); in front of the print $2, $3....
# 25  
Old 05-19-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Add a gsub (" ",""); in front of the print $2, $3....
The FS I suggested in post #22 got rid of leading spaces in fields 2 through NF and got rid of trailing spaces in fields 1 through NF-1.
# 26  
Old 05-19-2015
Yes. I proposed an alternative in case a multichar FS is not accepted.
# 27  
Old 05-19-2015
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Originally Posted by RudiC
Yes. I proposed an alternative in case a multichar FS is not accepted.
The standards say that FS is an extended regular expression, and I don't know of any systems that don't allow an ERE specifying multiple characters to be used as the field separator.

Some implementations allow FS="" to specify that every character on an input line is a separate field. Many implementations do not allow that, and the standards say that the behavior is unspecified in this case.
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