HI I don't think it like the space before |
Should be FS="|"; Best Marvin On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm re-reading the ORA 'sed & awk' 2nd edition because I need to modify > data files (>130K lines in one and >45K lines in another). Should be a > simple script but I'm getting a syntax error trying to define the OFS. > > Here's a line of the data file: > 'D-1'|'2007-12-12'|'Ag'|0.000| > > Since fields in the data file are delineated with '|'. I define FS = '|' > in the BEGIN section, but awk doesn't like me to also define OFS there: > > awk: ./add-non-detect.awk:7: BEGIN { FS = "|" OFS = "|" } > awk: ./add-non-detect.awk:7: ^ syntax error > > There's no explicit example in the book, only statements that the default > output field separator is a space, and that's applied by putting a comma > after the field variable. What have I missed? > > Rich > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
