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From: shun@cbnewsh.att.com (shun.cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Awk Field Separators
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.212428.19201@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 22 Aug 90 21:24:28 GMT
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Distribution: comp.unix.questions
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In article <3729@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> cubbage@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Sharon Cubbage) writes:
>
>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

This can be achieved by re-defining the field separator to be
a blank or a "|":

   FS = "[\ \|]"

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