awk to print all columns from the nth to the last with spaces

Question

I have the following input file:

a 1  o p
b  2 o p p
c     3 o p p  p

in the last line there is a double space between the last p\'s

Answer 1

In Perl, you can use split with capturing to keep the delimiters:

perl -ne '@f = split /( +)/; print @f[ 1 * 2 .. $#f ]'
#                                      ^
#                                      |
#                              column number goes
#                              here (starting from 0)