Thanks to all who replied to the question - it's given me a number of options
to consider.
Cheers,
Tom
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:08, Matthew Gregan wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:36:14PM +1300, Peter Glassenbury wrote:
> > What about using $0 (whole line) and
> > length($1),length($2),length($3) and substr($0,sumoflengths)
> >
> > or something like that ?
>
> It won't work. You need to take into account not only the length of the
> already used fields, but also the field separators between the fields.
>
> This should do the trick:
>
> #! /usr/bin/awk -f
> {
> printf("1: \"%s\" 2: \"%s\" 3: \"%s\"\n", $1, $2, $3);
>
> rest = index($0, $4);
> printf("rest: \"%s\"\n", substr($0, rest));
> }
>
> Cheers,
> -mjg
