On 4/12/2013 2:40 PM, Bob Cronin wrote:
> pipe literal    123456789 | spill 10 offset />/ | cons
> 
> This produces a single line of output "123456789".

That's this part:

> A  leading  string is split off long input records until the remainder is not
> longer than the specified length.  The remainder is then passed unmodified to
> the output with offset applied.                                              

Since there's only one record of output, "with offset applied" means no
change.  If you used KEEP, you'd get three records:  the leading blanks,
the word with the offset, and the trailing blank with the offset.

¬R

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