gawk: Skipping intervening

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1 4.6.2 Skipping Intervening Fields
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1 Starting in version 4.2, each field width may optionally be preceded by
1 a colon-separated value specifying the number of characters to skip
1 before the field starts.  Thus, the preceding program could be rewritten
1 to specify 'FIELDWIDTHS' like so:
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1      BEGIN  { FIELDWIDTHS = "8 1:5 4:7 6 1:6 1:6 2:33" }
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1    This strips away some of the white space separating the fields.  With
1 such a change, the program produces the following results:
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1      hzang    ttyV3 50
1      eklye    ttyV5 0
1      dportein ttyV6 107
1      gierd    ttyD3 1
1      dave     ttyD4 0
1      brent    ttyp0 286
1      dave     ttyq4 1296000
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