Re: [bug-gawk] gawk not working properly on the first line

[Miriam English]

Davide Brini wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:55:42 +1000, Miriam English <address@hidden>
> wrote:
[snip]
> > Is this a genuine bug or am I misusing awk somehow?
>
>
> You are supposed to set FS before awk reads and tries to parse the line; in
> this case, that means setting it in the BEGIN block or on the command line
> with -v.
>
> This is documented in the gawk manual, see
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Field-Splitting-Summary
>
> the box titled "changing FS does not affect the fields".

Doh! Thank you Davide. I can hardly believe I missed that. Works 
perfectly now. Yay! I'm very grateful.


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