Re: FIELDWIDTHS does not work.

[Aharon Robbins]

> From: "Byron Dai" <address@hidden>
> Subject: FIELDWIDTHS does not work.
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:09:13 +0800
>
> Hi, dear Sirs:
>
>          I'm trying a small sample program of gawk. It run in HP-UX. The
> data file is (gawk.datasample):
>
>      1Swensen, Tim  24
>      1Trinkle, Dan  22
>      0Mitchel, Carl 27
>
>          While the awk script is (gawk.program):
>    BEGIN {FIELDWIDTHS=1 8 1 4 1 2}

This is your problem.  The list must be quoted:

        FIELDWIDTHS = "1 8 4 1 2"

Arnold
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