At Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:27:53 +0200, Alan Barrett <a...@cequrux.com> wrote: Subject: Re: language bindings (fs-independent quotas) > > On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > >> Assuming that there's no need to handle fields with embedded > >> spaces, perl's split() function will DTRT. > > > > No, it does not because there are fields that can be empty. > > The common way of dealing with that is to have a placehloder like "-" > for empty fields.
I dunno (and don't want to know :-)) about perl, but it's easy enough to
insert proper field separators into fixed-width columnar input with Awk
and then go about using split() or whatever uses FS normally.
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Greg A. Woods
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