Which has a synonym AFIELD that can be abbreviated down to 2 characters.
I forgot to document that twenty years ago, but it seems I never got round to do it subsequently except from an allusion in RECORD. Just as you can specify FIELD and WORD in an inputRange, you can also specify AUTOFIELD (AField). Of course, you cannot specify the field delimiter, as it is implied to be the first character of the record. Thus, AUTOFIELD 1 always begins in column 2 of the input record. pipe literal =f1=17|substr af 2|cons 17 Cheers, j
