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 4.6 Reading Fixed-Width Data
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 This minor node discusses an advanced feature of 'gawk'.  If you are a
 novice 'awk' user, you might want to skip it on the first reading.
 
    'gawk' provides a facility for dealing with fixed-width fields with
 no distinctive field separator.  We discuss this feature in the
 following nodes.
 

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· 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.
 

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