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4.6 Reading Fixed-Width Data
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This minor node 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 nodes.

* Menu:

* 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.