Re: awk not just using the Field separator as such. it is using the blank space as well ...

[DdB <debianlist@potentially-spam.de-bruyn.de>]

Am 15.02.2023 um 08:21 schrieb DdB:
> $ awk --version
> GNU Awk 4.2.1, API: 2.0 (GNU MPFR 4.0.2, GNU MP 6.1.2)
> Copyright © 1989, 1991-2018 Free Software Foundation.

even mawk would. see:
$ mawk -W version

compiled limits:
max NF             32767
sprintf buffer      2040

$ echo "Adams, Fred, and Ken Aizawa \"The Bounds of Cognition\"" | mawk
-F'\"' '{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) print $i;}'
Adams, Fred, and Ken Aizawa
The Bounds of Cognition