smirsistani
Programmer
hi
awk '{FS=",";print $2}'
one,two,three
four,five,six
five
why FS="," in line one do not work?
awk '{FS=",";print $2}'
one,two,three
four,five,six
five
why FS="," in line one do not work?
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smirsistani
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if i using BEGIN
awk 'BEGIN{FS=","}{print $2}'
one,two,three
one
four,five,six
five
awk 'BEGIN{FS=","}{print $2}'
one,two,three
one
four,five,six
five
Hi
Because Awk first reads the next record, splits it into fields then execute the code. And you only set the [tt]FS[/tt] in the code. So after the splitting was performed.
You can force Awk to repeat the splitting by touching the record :
Feherke.
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Because Awk first reads the next record, splits it into fields then execute the code. And you only set the [tt]FS[/tt] in the code. So after the splitting was performed.
You can force Awk to repeat the splitting by touching the record :
Code:
[teal]{[/teal][navy]FS[/navy][teal]=[/teal][i][green]","[/green][/i][teal];[/teal][highlight][navy]$0[/navy][teal]=[/teal][navy]$0[/navy][teal];[/teal][/highlight][b]print[/b] [navy]$2[/navy][teal]}[/teal]Feherke.
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