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From: Leisner.Henr@XEROX.COM (Marty)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: gawk questions
Message-ID: <890808-150138-2345@Xerox>
Date: 8 Aug 89 22:01:31 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
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I'm learning how to use awk.  I started to use GAWK 2.10 on my sun386i
since the documentation seemed substantially complete then the Unix
version.

1) I can't seem to get FILENAME to work.  Is it available in a begin block?
I played around with it but haven't seen it do anything useful yet.

I ended up doing this:
BEGIN {
	printf "; File %s converted ", ARGV[ARGC-1]
	system("date");
}
BTW -- I started by using $ARGV[$ARGC-1] -- this dumped core.

2) I want to do some substitions of the form
	0xnnnnn to 0nnnnH
I'm not sure I see how to do it.  Any good recommendations? 
(I'm converted assembler syntax from one assembler to another so I'd want
to be able do do something 
and di,*0x000F
into
and di,000FH
)

	


marty
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