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LWSP=Linear White Space "Linear white space is: any number of spaces or horizontal tabs, and also newline (CRLF) if it is followed by at least one space or hori
by swimfar 6y ago
LWSP=Linear White Space
"Linear white space is: any number of spaces or horizontal tabs, and also newline (CRLF) if it is followed by at least one space or horizontal tab." [1]
I don't know what LWSP gobbling is, though. Google didn't help.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21072713/what-exactly-is-the-linear-whitespace-lws-lwsp https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21072713/what-exactly-is...
- pstuart 6y agoIt means a contiguous collection of arbitrary white space characters are considered to be a single delimiter. With the parent example it means that column #2 could have any of number whitespaces between it and column #1.
- ggm 6y agoyes. whereas cut, considers ' ' (two spaces) as an instance of a blank column separated by the -d' ' space instance. Its like ,, in CSV being a blank column.