Awk: splitting a field -

new awk , try that's simple it's taking me while. simplify things, have text file called 'sample' , contains following line:

164516454242451bx%apt 110 225 1784 ohio usa

i want following output using awk:

apt 110 225

is there way can split $1 "apt" separate field? code i'm trying below. recieve no error, output 2 blank lines.

awk ' begin { split($1," ","%") } print $2,$3,$4 end { print "" } ' sample 

you can % 1 of delimiters:

awk -f'[ %]' '{print $2, $3, $4}' file 

the same can done using split well:

awk '{split($1,a,/%/); print a[2], $2, $3}' file