[ale] Riddle me this awk man

[Greg Freemyer]

Geoffrey,

NR== 1 is just to. ID the header row.

And as I put in the first message I deleted the NR logic and just had
the main print clause.

It still only printed about 1/3rd of the lines.

Fyi;  all the lines have at least 5 fields.  I verifed 5, 6, and 7
field lines work.  So I think this is not a problem with my logic.
Just a awk bug.

Greg

On 2/17/11, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>
>> I still wonder whether it's something to do with the actual number of
>> fields.  If the lines that you think have a single field end or begin
>> with a space, awk will think there is a null field.
>
> Okay, the above assumption is wrong, but the below I think is your
> issue.  NR == 1 only for the first record.
>
>>
>> Wait a minute.  Should you be using NF not NR?  NF == number of fields
>> NR == number of records.
>
>
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> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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