I don't know what it should do for a single word more than you guys.  But
right now it is not consistent with one vs two leading blanks.


On 12 April 2013 21:23, Glenn Knickerbocker <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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