Re: "sed" question

On 3/6/24 19:54, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

You see that there's then (per default) only single delimiting spaces left.

I think I see what you're saying.  I also feel like I must be missing something obvious, because what you're describing is what I would expect awk to do.

You can change that by delimiter OFS, e.g. OFS="\t" would place TABs in between (but would not preserve the original spacing).

I've dabbled with OFS, and IFS, a few times as needed.  But most of the time I don't need to.

If you'd want to retain the previous spaces it would require some other (not so trivial) handling.

I can't think of a use case where I would want that and choose to use awk.  --  I'm sure such use cases exist, I'm just ignorant of them.
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