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tmcguinness 02-09-2009 12:16 PM
how to keep Field Separator in AWK when using a sub statement
 
Ok so here is my little one liner:

cat somefile.txt | awk -F\| '{ sub(//,"999",$3); print }'

The delimiter is a | and the results end up without anything but spaces which ruins my output.

I know there is a fairly easy way to avoid this - anyone?

jan61 02-09-2009 02:09 PM
Moin,

Code:
awk -F\| 'BEGIN {OFS="|"}{ sub(//,"999",$3); print }' somefile.txt
Jan

P.S.: Please - no useless use of cat award parties here ;-)

tmcguinness 02-09-2009 02:16 PM
Gruetzi!

Ah - yes - thanks I thought it was something similar to setting OFS!

Cheers,
todd

tmcguinness 02-09-2009 02:19 PM
Oh and the reason I was using a cat was due to the data actually being piped into the statement. It was really for simplicity.

jan61 02-09-2009 02:24 PM
Moin,

Quote:
Originally Posted by tmcguinness (Post 3437509)
Oh and the reason I was using a cat was due to the data actually being piped into the statement. It was really for simplicity.
oh - in this case I can live with it and won't receive any nightmares tonight ;-)

Jan


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