Re: gawk3.1.0

[Darrel Hankerson]

Martin Palko <address@hidden> writes:

         awk ' { FS=":"; print $1 $2 } '
    - it uses the delimiter ":" for each line from the input except the frst 
      one - the first input line is split using the default delimiter " " ...

Read the "Field Splitting Summary" of the gawk manual:

   According to the POSIX standard, `awk' is supposed to behave as if
   each record is split into fields at the time that it is read.  In
   particular, this means that you can change the value of `FS' after a
   record is read, and the value of the fields (i.e. how they were split)
   should reflect the old value of `FS', not the new one.

--Darrel Hankerson address@hidden