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Re: FIELDWIDTHS does not work.
From: |
Aharon Robbins |
Subject: |
Re: FIELDWIDTHS does not work. |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:16:30 +0200 |
> From: "Byron Dai" <address@hidden>
> Subject: FIELDWIDTHS does not work.
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:09:13 +0800
>
> Hi, dear Sirs:
>
> I'm trying a small sample program of gawk. It run in HP-UX. The
> data file is (gawk.datasample):
>
> 1Swensen, Tim 24
> 1Trinkle, Dan 22
> 0Mitchel, Carl 27
>
> While the awk script is (gawk.program):
> BEGIN {FIELDWIDTHS=1 8 1 4 1 2}
This is your problem. The list must be quoted:
FIELDWIDTHS = "1 8 4 1 2"
Arnold
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