improvement: consistent use of delimiter

src/awk/dayview.awk

@@ -1,8 +1,22 @@
 ## src/awk/dayview.awk
-## Generate the view of a day from lines of the form
-## ```
-##  <start_date>|<end_date>|<start_time>|<end_time>|<file_path>|<collection>|<description>
-## ```.
+## Take as input (tab-delimited):
+##   1. s (start time, as HH:MM)
+##   2. e (end time, as HH:MM)
+##   3. starttime
+##   4. endtime
+##   5. fpath
+##   6. collection
+##   7. description
+##   8. status
+##
+## filter out irrelevant lines, and generate the view of a day
+## (tab-delimited), including empty hours:
+##   1. start date
+##   2. start time
+##   3. end time
+##   4. file path
+##   5. collection
+##   6. description
 ##
 ## @assign today: Date of `today` in the format %D (%m/%d/%y)
 ## @assign daystart: Hour of start of the day
@@ -91,14 +105,14 @@ function hrlines(start, stop, h,    starth, stoph, tmp, i) {
 
 # AWK program
 BEGIN {
-  FS = "|"
+  FS = "\t"
+  OFS = "\t"
   LIGHT_CYAN = "\033[1;36m"
   CYAN = "\033[1;36m"
   ITALIC = "\033[3m"
   FAINT = "\033[2m"
   STRIKE = "\033[9m"
   OFF = "\033[m"
-  OFS = "|"
 }
 $1 == "00:00" && $2 == "00:00" { print today, $1, $3, $4, $5, allday($6, $7, $8);        next }
 $1 == "00:00"                  { print today, $1, $3, $4, $5, endstoday($2, $6, $7, $8); next }