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From: cubbage@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Sharon Cubbage)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Awk Field Separators
Message-ID: <3729@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 90 21:22:59 GMT
Distribution: comp.unix.questions
Organization: NCR Corporation, Systems Engineering - San Diego
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Does anybody know how to specify more than one field separator in Awk?
I would like to specify to an Awk program to treat single spaces as well
as bars as field separators so that a string such as :

12 12 12 34|34|34

will be said to have 6 fields.  I've tried to create a regular expression
to handle both cases but it hasn't been working.

Any hints?

Thanks!
Sharon