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From: Hongyi Zhao on 21 Feb 2010 20:57
Hi all,

Consider the following sentence:

you're my friend, bla, he's my another friend.

If I want to use the bla as the awk's field-separator to do some text
manipulate, is it possible or not?
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From: Barry Margolin on 21 Feb 2010 22:03
In article <oqo3o5p84e7igl8560k508o3sfhfh99n0c(a)4ax.com>,
Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Consider the following sentence:
>
> you're my friend, bla, he's my another friend.
>
> If I want to use the bla as the awk's field-separator to do some text
> manipulate, is it possible or not?

You can use any regular expression as the field separator.

awk -F'bla' ...

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From: Hongyi Zhao on 21 Feb 2010 22:17
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:03:00 -0500, Barry Margolin
<barmar(a)alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>You can use any regular expression as the field separator.
>
>awk -F'bla' ...

Good, thanks. I should test it first.
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