Re: FS prob.

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:12:07PM +1000, Travis Johnston wrote:
> octopus# cat test
> aharvey:students:Amber Harvey:/bin/bash:students:c132s31:
> jgregor:students:Jonathan Lucas Gregor:/bin/bash:students:c132s31:
> 
> octopus# cat test | gawk '{FS=":"; print $1 "--" $6}'
> aharvey:students:Amber--
> jgregor--c132s31

this is correct behaviour.  You've changed FS _after_ the first line has
been split.

What you probably meant was this:

        cat test | gawk 'BEGIN{FS=":"} {print $1 "--" $6}'
or
        cat test | gawk -F: '{print $1 "--" $6}'
or
        cat test | gawk '{print $1 "--" $6}' FS=:

> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

Can you please send text mail as plain text?  That saves time for me
and for many others.  Please see "Internet mail: living with Microsoft
Outlook" <http://www.lemis.com/email/fixing-outlook.html>.  Thanks.

Regards,
        Stepan Kasal