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On 3/6/24 19:54, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> You see that there's then (per default) only single delimiting spaces 
> left.

I think I see what you're saying.  I also feel like I must be missing 
something obvious, because what you're describing is what I would expect 
awk to do.

> You can change that by delimiter OFS, e.g. OFS="\t" would place TABs 
> in between (but would not preserve the original spacing).

I've dabbled with OFS, and IFS, a few times as needed.  But most of the 
time I don't need to.

> If you'd want to retain the previous spaces it would require some other 
> (not so trivial) handling.

I can't think of a use case where I would want that and choose to use 
awk.  --  I'm sure such use cases exist, I'm just ignorant of them.



-- 
Grant. . . .