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Re: $0 reconstructed with separator OFS - instead of FS - upon change of
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J Naman |
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Re: $0 reconstructed with separator OFS - instead of FS - upon change of a field |
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Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:19:35 -0500 |
Not a Bug! I have used OFS in 240 uniquely named gawk files, mostly, but
not always to output TSV (tab-separated variables) or CSV. And I have a
method to NOT reconstitute $0 at inconvenient times.
r0 = $0; sub(..., r0); r0=gensub(..., r0); $0 = r0 or just print r0
- John