>Yes the first does not give an error but treats the line as one field
>david
>
>On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Vidiot wrote:
>
>> >Does anybody know how to set the field separator to "="
>> >david
>>
>> Did you try the "-F =" on the command line, or:
>>
>> BEGIN {
>> FS = "="
>> }
Strange. But, then again, I've never tried using = as a separator.
I normally use semicolons.
Maybe you can sed the file beforehand and change all of the = characters into
a unique character, like a semicolon.
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