title: How do I tell awk to use = as a separator (with white spaces removed too)
body: <p>Suppose I have the following file.</p>
  
  <pre><code>John=good
  Tom   = ok
  Tim =    excellent
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know the following let's me use <code>=</code> as a separator.</p>
  
  <pre><code>awk -F= '{print $1,$2}' file
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This gives me the following results.</p>
  
  <pre><code>John good
  Tom     ok
  Tim      excellent
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like the white spaces to be ignored, so that only the names and their performances are printed out.</p>
  
  <p>One way to get around this is run another <code>awk</code> on the results.</p>
  
  <pre><code>awk -F= '{print$1,$2}' file | awk '{print $1,$2}'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I wanted to know if I could do this in one <code>awk</code>?</p>