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Activity for Ed Morton‭

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Comment Post #281035 and to learn about Field Separators in awk see https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Field-Separators.
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #281034 `RS` in awk is the `Record Separator`, not the `Field Separator`. In awk `FS` is the input field separator (like `IFS` in shell) while `OFS` is the output field separator (no equivalent in shell).
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #286207 While using gsub() won't hurt, aside from maybe a small performance hit and making readers wonder what use case you're considering by using it, you should be using sub() for this as you're only doing 1 substitution (of the entire field at once).
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #286206 While using `gsub()` won't hurt, aside from maybe a small performance hit and making readers wonder what use case you're considering by using it, you should be using `sub()` for this as you're only doing 1 substitution (of the entire field at once).
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over 2 years ago