awk substr adds extra spaces

[ptmcs]

hi,

The following awk works 'mostly ok',
except extra spaces are added by awk.
Does anybody know how to stop it from doing that?

cat $filein | awk '{print \
"|", substr($0,15, 2 ), \
"|", substr($0,72, 4 ), \
"|", substr($0,230, 80), \
"|", substr($0,856, 7 ) \
}'>fileout

eg:

| 02 | CHIL | |

Cheers

 

[Annihilannic]

Space is the default output separator, which will be placed wherever you have a comma in the print command. If you just take the commas out it should do what you expect (they aren't required).

Annihilannic.

 

[ptmcs]

Thanks! that's done the trick...