FIELDWIDTHS question

[Andy Chambers]

Hi All,

The documentation states...

"Each number specifies the width of the field *including* columns between
fields"

So how come I get the following...

echo 1234 |gawk -vFIELDWIDTHS="2 2" '{ print NF }'
=> 1

echo 1234 |gawk -vFIELDWIDTHS="2 2 2" '{ print NF }'
=> 2

gawk --version
=> GNU Awk 3.1.5
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Many Thanks,
Andy

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Andy Chambers
Formedix Ltd