1 1 4.6 Reading Fixed-Width Data 1 ============================ 1 1 This minor node discusses an advanced feature of 'gawk'. If you are a 1 novice 'awk' user, you might want to skip it on the first reading. 1 1 'gawk' provides a facility for dealing with fixed-width fields with 1 no distinctive field separator. We discuss this feature in the 1 following nodes. 1
1 · Fixed width data Processing fixed-width data. · Skipping intervening Skipping intervening fields. · Allowing trailing data Capturing optional trailing data. · Fields with fixed data Field values with fixed-width data. 1