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    I wonder if it would anger the awk gods if you simply forced numeric conversion of the field i.e. awk -F, '/received/ {print $2+0}' ? Commented Apr 4, 2022 at 16:41
  • What is the function of sub and "" in the parenthesis)? Commented Apr 4, 2022 at 17:39
  • /received/ {sub(/received/, "", $2); print $2} = sub(/received/, ""){print $2} in this case, but it still leaves undesirable blanks either way. Commented Apr 4, 2022 at 17:40
  • +1 for answering the question as asked, rather than providing workarounds. You never know when someone will actually need 2 separate delimiters an stumble on this thread. Commented Apr 5, 2022 at 14:09
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    @shadowtalker Conversely, sometimes they're asking the wrong question, i.e. it's an XY problem. Commented Apr 6, 2022 at 14:51