FIELDWIDTHS does not work.

[Byron Dai]

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}
   { if ($1 == 1) print "Salaried employee "$2,$4" is "$6" years old.";
     else             print "Hourly   employee "$2,$4" is "$6" years old."
   }
   END {print "End of awk script!"}
  
 Result: After the running of  $gawk -f gawk.program gawk.datasample, the output is:

Hourly   employee   is  years old.
Hourly   employee   is  years old.
Hourly   employee   is  years old.
End of awk script!

         FIELDWIDTHS setting does not take effect. The $1 of line 1 is 1Swensen, and Tim is $2 and 24 is $3. There is no

                      $4 and $6.

 

BRs/Byron Dai

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