Re: Quoted fields containing field separator

trexx wrote:

Ed
Fortunately I took a long bike ride and feel mellow now.  I recommend you do
the same

I advised you to re-post a concise question so you'd stand a better chance at getting an answer. You told me I was bothering you. I advised you to read the link on top-posting so you'd understand why it's ill-received in NGs. You ignored me. I gave you more details on the types of question that are unanswered in your original posting. You tell me I should take a bike ride. You now still have no responses to your original question, haven't provided the necessary information to get an answer, and are still top-posting.

You win. I surrender. Good luck,

	Ed.

Regards
Rex
"Ed Morton" <morton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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trexx wrote:

Ed
If you can't be bothered why bother me with such a long unrewarding
response...


Bother you??? I was telling you why, in my opinion, you shouldn't expect
many responses and suggesting how you could fix that. Advice is only
unrewarding if you choose to ignore it.


As you would have noted... I did run both tawk and gawk on Schuler's
question and tawk clearly
had a very crisp solution.


Saying you ran tawk and gawk is not useful. You need to post the script.
You posted 2 different scripts. Did you really try that "FPAT" thing in
gawk? Or was the gawk script you ran the one at the end of your posting?
Or was that other script unrelated to your question?

More importantly, what output did you expect? What problem are you
trying to solve?

 For the record, FPAT variable is used to specify

the pattern that the fields must mach, while FS specifies the pattern 

for

the field separator. IF you were really interested you could have asked 

me

instead of your shoot-from-the-lip response 

I'm really not particularly interested and I'm a little surprised that
you think I would be. I don't mind helping someone out occasionally, but
I've certainly got no vested interest in solving the problem and no
incentive to spend a lot of time trying to figure out what the question


is.

I saw you post a long article that was unlikely to get a response for
the reasons I stated. To try to help you I posted those reasons plus a
suggestion of how you could repost in a way that might get a better
response. Maybe others have more time to spend parsing each posting for
relevant information. In the meantime, you may want to take a look at
these netiquette suggestions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette

Good luck,

Ed.


Regards
Rex

"Ed Morton" <morton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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trexx wrote:


Gawk Gurus..
Tawk does the job with FS and FPAT switches set, while Gawk does not..


Since


Tawk is now obsolete I need learn more about Gawk...Are there switches
similar to FS and FPAT that exist in Gawk?



I don't know about anyone else, but I can't be bothered to try to figure
out what FPAT is, whether or not tawk and gawk have the same meaning for
FS, try to figure out what script you ran in tawk vs awk to produce the
output below, what parts of this posting you want us to look at, what
preceeding messages in this or other threads are relevant, etc....

If you don't get many responses, you MAY want to start a new thread
clearly stating your current problem, attempted script, and sample


in/out.

Ed. 





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