[ale] Riddle me this awk man

[Björn Gustafsson]

It is probably an off by one error/CRLF difference.  If you skip the
first five delimiters, and there are only five fields, then there are
only four spaces on the line.  In cygwin, you skip over the carriage
return (byte 5) but still have the line feed.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Geoffrey,
>
> NR== 1 is just to. ID the header row.
>
> And as I put in the first message I deleted the NR logic and just had
> the main print clause.
>
> It still only printed about 1/3rd of the lines.
>
> Fyi;  all the lines have at least 5 fields.  I verifed 5, 6, and 7
> field lines work.  So I think this is not a problem with my logic.
> Just a awk bug.
>
> Greg
>
> On 2/17/11, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>>
>>> I still wonder whether it's something to do with the actual number of
>>> fields.  If the lines that you think have a single field end or begin
>>> with a space, awk will think there is a null field.
>>
>> Okay, the above assumption is wrong, but the below I think is your
>> issue.  NR == 1 only for the first record.
>>
>>>
>>> Wait a minute.  Should you be using NF not NR?  NF == number of fields
>>> NR == number of records.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>
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>>
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