Field delimiter

[mbach]

All,

How can I make the field delimiter be more than one character in awk? I would like to make it (WIN32.

Thanks
Mike

 

[dickiebird]

I've only ever used one character or \t
Have you tried :
awk '
BEGIN {
FS="(WIN32"
}

Vlad will know - he always does !

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[CaKiwi]

You can set the field separator to multiple characters, but because it is a regular expression, the ( needs to be escaped. There are a number of ways to do this, one of which is

FS="[(]WIN32"

CaKiwi

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[vgersh99]

FS="\\(WIN32"

You need to 'double-escape' the parentheses as it's to be taken literary. The FS is a regex and '()' are used for grouping with OR:

FS="(abc)|(def)"
an FS is EITHER 'abc' OR 'def'

Hey, dickie!

vlad
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[vgersh99]

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what can I say - great minds think alike
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vlad
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[CaKiwi]

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Stop, stop, you're embarassing me
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CaKiwi

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