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
