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 Specifying How Fields are Separated
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    This section is rather long; it describes one of the most fundamental
 operations in `awk'.
 

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* Basic Field Splitting        How fields are split with single characters
                                  or simple strings.
* Regexp Field Splitting       Using regexps as the field separator.
* Single Character Fields      Making each character a separate field.
* Command Line Field Separator Setting `FS' from the command line.
* Field Splitting Summary      Some final points and a summary table.
 

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