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Re: FIELDWIDTHS helper

From gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
Newsgroups comp.lang.awk
Subject Re: FIELDWIDTHS helper
Date 2025-08-10 21:34 +0000
Organization The official candy of the new Millennium
Message-ID <107b39j$3flec$1@news.xmission.com> (permalink)
References <b208cecc-acca-4a4b-bce8-013c66682fcc@scorecrow.com> <107arnd$23gng$1@dont-email.me> <20250810124827.931@kylheku.com>

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In article <20250810124827.931@kylheku.com>,
Kaz Kylheku  <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
...
>But I suspect that the program is intended to be a helper
>when developing a program that uses FIELDWIDTHS.
>
>Your portable example is no longer testing/displaying what the value of
>FIELDWIDTHS is doing against the input data.

It is pretty clear that Mr. Ed completely missed the point of the post.

He should not feel bad about that.  It is pretty obscure.  It took me a few
reads to get it.  I was half-way though posting a "WTF is this?" post in
response, when it dawned on me what the point of it was.

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FIELDWIDTHS helper Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2025-08-06 10:23 +0100
  Re: FIELDWIDTHS helper Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-10 14:25 -0500
    Re: FIELDWIDTHS helper Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-08-10 19:51 +0000
      Re: FIELDWIDTHS helper gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-08-10 21:34 +0000
        Re: FIELDWIDTHS helper Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-08-11 04:10 +0000
          Re: FIELDWIDTHS helper Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2025-08-15 08:14 +0100
  Re: FIELDWIDTHS helper Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-08-11 11:51 +0200

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