AWK - why fields go to seperate lines?
 

Doing a homework and when i write this every field goes different lines in the output? How can i fix it?

awk -F"%" '{ for (i=1; i< $3; i++){ print $i }}' text.txt

man%boy%girl
joe%jack%johnny

to
man
boy
girl

joe
jack
johnny

i want:

man boy girl
joe jack johnny


i left 3 hours please be quick :)

I don't do homework for others, but I will point out that the default behavior of print is to append a newline. On the other hand, printf() does not.
--- rod.

Thanks very much!!

solved!

By the way: it is the smallest part of hw
and i spent 2 hours for adding "f" to print :)