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This section discusses an advanced
feature of gawk. If you are a novice awk user,
you might want to skip it on the first reading.
gawk provides a facility for dealing with fixed-width fields
with no distinctive field separator. We discuss this feature in
the following subsections.
| • Fixed width data | Processing fixed-width data. | |
| • Skipping intervening | Skipping intervening fields. | |
| • Allowing trailing data | Capturing optional trailing data. | |
| • Fields with fixed data | Field values with fixed-width data. |