awk field separator

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I need to set awk field separator to ";", but I need to avoid ";EXT".

so that

echo a;b;c;EXTd;e;f | awk -F";" '{print $3}'

would give "

c;EXTd

"

2

As far as I know its not possible.
Setting FS is a global parameter.
You may try other solution, like split an join it after, like

echo "a;b;c;EXTd;e;f" | awk -F";" '{print $3";"$4}'
c;EXTd

You may using IF/THEN and locate the EXT if its not in same location and then join it if found.

3 
$ echo 'a;b;c;EXTd;e;f' | sed 's/;EXT/�/g; s/;/|/g; s/�/;EXT/g' | awk -F\| '{print $3}'
c;EXTd