Re: The best way to convert space separated text to TSV?

[Manuel Collado]

El 11/02/2020 a las 16:00, Peng Yu escribió:
> > --- tabular1,awk ---
> > {
> >      nf = split($0, f, " ", s)
> >      offset = length(s[0])
> >      for (n=1; n<numcols; n++) {   # first numcols-1 columns
> >         offset = offset + length(f[n]) + length(s[n])
> >         printf("%s\t", f[n])
> >      }
> >      print substr($0, offset)      # last column, with spaces
>
> It sounds like this should be ` print substr($0, offset+1)`. Is it?

Oops! Yes.

> > }

Besides this, does it answer your original question?

Regards.
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