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More of what my question is related to is why I am getting any output at all. If you change the delimiter to a comma, you get the following output: ``` sophomore freshman ``` Which makes sense. if you then change it to field 4, you get empty output, which still makes sense. But shouldn't I be getting no or blank output in the original example?

ayeieye
– ayeieye

2024-01-26 21:05:56 +00:00
Commented Jan 26, 2024 at 21:05
You may also need to fix your field parameter -f, but I cant tell you that until I see students.txt

eyoung100
– eyoung100

2024-01-26 21:09:22 +00:00
Commented Jan 26, 2024 at 21:09
The contents of students.txt is shared in the original post.

ayeieye
– ayeieye

2024-01-26 21:10:23 +00:00
Commented Jan 26, 2024 at 21:10
I believe you also need a space after -f Adding it should only print senior and nothing else

eyoung100
– eyoung100

2024-01-26 21:19:19 +00:00
Commented Jan 26, 2024 at 21:19

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