Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

Hi,

I have an awk script which performs simple operations of variable assignments and finally printing the variables in custom form.

Code:

BEGIN {FS=OFS="\n"}
{
   v1=substr($0,1,15)
   v2=substr($0,16,200)
   v3=substr($0,216,20)
   print v1 "|" v2 "|" v3
}

The input file being processed is a fixed width file of record length=4346. The above script works perfectly as expected on Windows (using Windows Unix utilities). When I try to run the same script "as is" on Linux, I get the following error -
a.awk:7: ^ invalid char '' in expression"

I tried to debug the above script line by line and I find that the second line (assigning value to v2) is causing issues on Linux. Wondering, if are there any limitations of using substr to read $0 repeatedly has issues on Linux?

Kindly help.

Thanks and Regards,
Vidya

Thanks a lot. Instead of using Editplus to edit the file remotely, when I edited the file directly on Linux, it worked fine for me too. I guess, Editplus inserted some sort of carriage return when saved on Windows which would have caused the problem.