Hi Kevin,

two possibilities that come to mind are:

{ for ( i = 4; i <= NF; i++ ) printf( "%s ", $i ); printf( "\n" ) }

or if you always know exactly what the lengths of your first three
fields will be
(eg. $4 will always start at column 16):

{ printf( "%s\n", substr( $0, 16 ) ) }


Regards,

Maartens

-----Original Message-----
From: Kev Smith [mailto:kevin.smith@...]
Sent: 30 April 2003 11:20
To: geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Geeks that Gawk] Record field manipulation


Hi guys,

I have a record that will always start with the format :

"Mnt D HH:MM:SS data data data"

I would like to strip the first three fields,and put the rest of the
string into a shell variable. I have tried different ways, E.G
printf, index, substr but I just cant seem to get it right. It would
be nice if there was an implementation of BEGIN;{FS=" ";printf "%
s\n",$4,the rest of the fields in the record}. Am I missing something?

Thanks all who read this!

Kev.

Unix sys admin.


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