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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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Subject: Re: extracting "rest of line" in AWK
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Date: 25 Aug 89 16:13:53 GMT
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In article <3368@blake.acs.washington.edu> mbader@cac.washington.edu
(Mark Bader) wrote:
>I have a line that looks like

>%% Heading "This is a Graph Heading"

>and I want to do a {print $3} to get the "This is a Graph Heading" part,
>but this obviously dosen't work.   Is there a way to do this?  

{for (num = 3; num <= NF; num++) {printf "%s ", $num}}
{printf "\n"}

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