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Re: The best way to convert space separated text to TSV?
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Peng Yu |
Subject: |
Re: The best way to convert space separated text to TSV? |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:00:42 -0600 |
> --- 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?
> }
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Regards,
Peng