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# 1  
Old 02-06-2009
Unwanted field separation in awk
Hi everyone,

My problem is strange, I cannot think of why this is happening.

I have a set of data that looks like this:

Quote:
Trial:1 131983 2 (197,383) 1 515 389 7 986 0 0 0 1 computertower_c.jpg computertower_c.jpg
Trial:1 131983 2 (197,383) 2 206.7 378.7 1039 1621 0 0 0 1 computertower_c.jpg computertower_c.jpg
Trial:2 135077 4 (511,69) 1 513.9 390.1 7 992 0 1 0 1 bird_n.jpg bird_n.jpg
Trial:2 135077 4 (511,69) 2 498.9 107.6 1033 1290 0 1 0 1 bird_n.jpg bird_n.jpg
Although it does not look it, the fields are tab delimited. I have made sure of this, and awk does recognize them as such. However, it divides what I would expect to be $4, (x, y), into two fields at the comma. Even if I specify:
Code:
{FS="\t"}

the issue persists. Any ideas?
# 2  
Old 02-06-2009
wow... sorry
Alright, I realized my problem... this can be deleted, I feel silly.

lol

Chris
# 3  
Old 02-06-2009
Odd - I get the following:
Code:
awk '{print $4}' file
(197,383)
(197,383)
(511,69)
(511,69)

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