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One of the most frustrating AWK programs
I do understand that is a valid AWK program, but I tried to highlight the fact that the actual meaning of A = "a" according to AWK's interpretation, is (A = "a") != 0 { print $0 } and it is so unlogical that it is almost meaningless. I mean, is there any sense to write such a condition that... -
One of the most frustrating AWK programs
Recently I wrote the following fragment in AWK by accident: A = "a" B = "b" { } END { print A, B } And the result completely blowed my mind up. Just try to run this code against e.g. the following input file: 1 2 3 and enjoy the result. The AWK code above was actually a part of a bigger... -
Possible bug in split() in awk95
PHV, you wrote: > I personally don't see any bug here. Well, if such action as split(a[3], a, ",") is incorrect, then there must be some warning from AWK, for example: "WARNING: you can not split an array element into the same array". But awk95 silently returns correct number of subfields and... -
Possible bug in split() in awk95
Hello, everybody. Does anybody use awk95 by Brian W. Kernighan? I think, I found a bug in realization of function split(), but I am not sure. Here is a sample code where you can see it: BEGIN { time = "10:30:00,000" split( time, a, ":" ) print a[3] # prints 00,000 - it's...
