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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AWK Question
Summary: Wrong function
Message-ID: <827@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 89 13:58:52 GMT
References: <281@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <281@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>, frank@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Frank G. Fiamingo) writes:
|  My problem is that I want to check a particular character
|  position in a record to see whether or not it is a blank.
|  [ ... ]

|  BEGIN {FS=""}
|  {split($0,array);
|  if (array[28] == " ") {array[28] = 0};
|  for(i in array) print array[$1]}
|  
|  [ ... ]
|  Can anyone tell me where I've gone wrong, or a better way
|  to do this?

One liner:
	substr($0,28,1) == " " { print }
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bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
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