Ah! Yes, I remember that now ... bit me again. Thanks. -- bc
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:23 PM, 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 >
