More than 1 character as a FS

[tdin]

I have a file where I would like to use an entire word as a delimiter (i.e. group). Can that be done?

Also, I would like to prompt the user for the delimiter in a shell script and then use it in the awk program. I know I can read a variable into awk but I don't think it works in the BEGIN section. Thanks.

 

[vgersh99]

myDelim="foo"

nawk -v FS="${myDelim}" -f myAWK.awk

 

[grega]

awk still doesn't seem to like FS of more than 1 character :-( Looks OK with nawk though.

Both awk & nawk still don't like RS > 1 char though, as mentioned in an earlier thread.

If it's FS you want, then

DELIM="group"
awk -F"$DELIM" -f awkscript filename

Greg.

 

[gregor weertman]

awk -F":|;|="

Awk HPUX 10.20 Gregor.Weertman@mailcity.com