Output separators
The output field separator and record separator
are held in the built-in variables
OFS
and
ORS.
Initially,
OFS
is set to a single blank
and
ORS
to a single newline,
but these values can be changed at any time.
For example, the following
program prints the first and second fields of each record
with a colon between the fields and two newlines after the second field:
BEGIN { OFS = ":"; ORS = "\n\n" }
{ print $1, $2 }
Notice that
{ print $1 $2 }
prints the first and second fields with no
intervening output field separator
because
$1 $2
is a string consisting of the concatenation
of the first two fields.
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