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Works for me.
Can you check if you've got any invisible ctrl chars in the real file eg use od cmd http://linux.die.net/man/1/od or in vi/vim use ':set list'.
Also show version of awk 'awk --version'
1. AnanthaP is quite correct that if you do not use the first 2 fields, then no need to set them.
2. chrism01ś point about the file probably being created in Windows would mean erroneous items at the end of the line causing issues. This one can be overcome by either, running dos2unix over the file
or simply setting the record separator (RS) to use the windows setting of ¨\n\r¨
3. You have happily used the process OFS=FS=¨,¨, so why not use $1=$2=¨HelloWorld¨
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