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Returning Multiple Arguments?

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calabrra

Technical User
Sep 16, 2003
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US
Hello,

Can an AWK function return more than one argument?

For example,

> return x, y;

Thanks
Bob
 
To the best of my knowledge, no. However since variables are global in awk by default you can just assign additional return values to some variables.

Annihilannic.
 
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