help please! 'while' won't work!

[sixpot]

Hi All

I'm trying to run the following awk script on Solaris 8. I've used the same code successfully many times on AIX but here it's just erroring with...

awk: syntax error near line 8
awk: illegal statement near line 8

...where line 8 is the while statement.


BEGIN {

INFILE="swift.txt"

{
while (( getline < INFILE ) > 0)
if (length ($0) > 0)
MERVREC[++NOMERV] = $0
close (INFILE)
}

# end of begin
}

Does anybody have any ideas as to why this won't work?

Many thanks
Luke

 

[Salem]

Use 'nawk' on Solaris, not 'awk'

 

[CaKiwi]

You need to use nawk instead of awk on Solaris

CaKiwi

&quot;I love mankind, it's people I can't stand&quot; - Linus Van Pelt

 

[sixpot]

You're a star! Many thanks.