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mutually exclusive patterns
Hi all, how do you match patterns in an "if-else" fashion? for example, say I have a set of patterns to match: /foo/ { print "foo" } /bar/ { print "bar" } /.*/ { print "default" } so for input file: foo bar raboof I'm getting: foo default bar default default but i would like: foo bar...
