awk FS of 2 or more spaces

[Hemo]

I have a file that has fields separated by two or more space characters. Some of the fields contain a single space.

I'm puzzled how I could get awk to recognize 2 or more spaces as the field separator.

awk -F " " doesn't do it for me.

Given this data:
record1 record2 this is record three record4

I am trying to get this result:
field1=record1
field2=record2
field3=this is record three
field4=record4

Ideas?

 

[PHV]

nawk -F' {2,}'

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[Hemo]

figures as soon as I post I figure it out.

I had bee trying this as well:
awk -F "[ ]+"

but this is what ended up working:

awk -F "[ ]+[ ]+"

 

[Annihilannic]

I would use awk -F ' +'. There's no need for the square brackets when you are only specifying one character.

Annihilannic.