Mahurshi Akilla wrote:
>
> is there a way to get the "nth" column of a string in perl, similar to
> awk '{print $col_no}' in awk ?
AWK does not have a 'col_no' variable so what is it that you are trying
to do?
I assume that you meant:
awk '{print $2}'
which would print the second field of the current record for each record
in the file/stream?
The Perl equivalent to that is:
perl -lane'print $F[1]'
John
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