removing leiding spaces

[vaat]

How can I remove leiding spaces in the print format ?

I do something like:

nawk -F, '/--/ {print $1, FS, $2}' filename

and get a line something like this:

-- bla bla bla

so how do I remove the leiding spaces ?

 

[bigoldbulldog]

How about using sub

nawk -F, '/--/ {sub(/^[ \t]*/,$1);print $1, FS, $2}' filename

Cheers,
ND

bigoldbulldog@hotmail.com

 

[vaat]

Sorry,

but this doesn't work !

alex

 

[vgersh99]

pls post your sample file

vlad

 

[vaat]

this works : thanxs all !!!

for i in `ls startrek*`
do
echo $i
sp=`nawk '!/--/ && !/stardate/ {print $0}' $i`;
cr=`nawk -F, '/--/ {print $1, $2}' $i`;
st=`nawk -F "stardate" '/stardate/ {print $2}' $i`;
echo $st @ $cr @ $sp >> bla
done

sort -fi bla | nawk -F@ '{printf "STARDATE\t %s\n CREDITS\t %s\n SPREUK\t\t %s\n\n", $1, $2, $3}' > uitvoer
rm bla