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Quoth Eckard Brauer <eckard.brauer@gmx.de>:
> 
> 
> but just noticed that p9 awk doesn't take RS as a regex, as gnu-awk
> does. So i'd maybe translate one of them using tr before (also noticed
> that escape sequences don't work with tr, however, this works somehow),
> e.g.

I think I explained poorly:

The problem is that I want to separate only *some* fields
or records based on the separator.

	foo bar     baz quux

should have 'bar     baz quux' extractable as a single
record.