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Using POSIX expressions in gawk
A contributor on another forum suggested defining the field separator as a string. Many thanks DaWei! Here's the complete program: # gawk -f word_freq.awk --posix file_to_process # Outputs a list of words and word frequencies # Words are defined as a string of alpha characters which may end... -
Using POSIX expressions in gawk
Thanks, PHV I tried using several POSIX statements like [[:punct:]] and [[:blank:]], but they were always ignored. Do I need to initialize POSIX in gawk. I thought these expressions were automatically available in gawk. -
Using POSIX expressions in gawk
I’m running gawk for Win32 on a Win XP machine. I’ve been trying to write a program that will count word frequencies when “words” are defined as alpha strings with at most two digits at the end, e.g. mp3. With the program below I experimented with various delimiters. # Output list of word...
