Re: [gawk] How to change Field without changing OFS

[Andreas Schwab]

Barco You <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing a program like following attached, for processing some file
> including strings like
> "DBTSC:NAME=CCSEXCHANGE,SETNAME=CCSS;"
> ....
> when I change some filed, and then redirect the record to new file, the
> fields will be separated by spaces. like:
> "DBTSC NAME CCSEXCHANGE SETNAME 1"
>
> My problem is: how can I keep the records in original formats with some
> field's value changed.

When awk processes a field assignment it recomputes $0 by concatenating
all fields separated by the current value of OFS.  If you want to keep
the original separators you need to split and recombine $0 by hand,
instead of doing a field assignment.

Andreas.

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