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getline to populate an array: skipping blanks
That seems to capture them, thanks! -
getline to populate an array: skipping blanks
I am using the getline x < file in the BEGIN{} section of an awk script to read an auxiliary file and populate an array which will be used to supply values in the main loop. The auxiliary files have inconsistent formats -- both " " and tab delimiters and arbitrary numbers of blank lines. In...
