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

[Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com>]

> https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#pf47
>
 what I am trying to do is split a string using as delimiter a pipe. I
used to do that with awk, but it doesn't work anymore after someone
had the great idea of substituting awk with mawk, it seems;  and Hey!
They could have done it with python!:

$ which awk
/usr/bin/awk

$ which mawk
/usr/bin/mawk

$ awk -W version
mawk 1.3.4 20200120
Copyright 2008-2019,2020, Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright 1991-1996,2014, Michael D. Brennan

random-funcs:       srandom/random
regex-funcs:        internal
compiled limits:
sprintf buffer      8192
maximum-integer     2147483647

$ mawk -W version
mawk 1.3.4 20200120
Copyright 2008-2019,2020, Thomas E. Dickey
Copyright 1991-1996,2014, Michael D. Brennan

random-funcs:       srandom/random
regex-funcs:        internal
compiled limits:
sprintf buffer      8192
maximum-integer     2147483647
$

 How do you split a string using as delimiter a pipe these days
without using a bloody hack?