Trouble with awk 1

[TSch]

Hi folks,

I got some trouble using awk under special circumstances.
I'm trying to fetch specific fields of a list.

Something like that:

> cat file.txt
0001 GE1 20100921 0x01 T1
0002 GE2 20100920 0x01 T2
0003 GE3 20090817 0x02 T3

So far no problem. If I want to get field 1 and 4 I simply use

cat file.txt | awk '{print $1 $4}' FS=' '

Where the output would look like this:

0001 0x01
0002 0x01
0003 0x02

Perfect! However in this specific case the file file.txt might look something like this:

> cat file.txt
0001 GE1 20100921 0x01 T1
0002 GE2          0x01 T2
0003 GE3 20090817 0x02 T3

See my problem ?
Using the above awk statement I get the following output:

0001 0x01
0002 T2
0003 0x02

Any idea how I could solve this issue ?

Regards,
Thomas

 

[PHV]

awk '{print $1,substr($0,194)}' file.txt

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[PHV]

OOps, sorry for the typo:

awk '{print $1,substr($0,19[!],[/!]4)}' file.txt

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[TSch]

Perfect, thanks a lot