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From: achowe@tiger.waterloo.edu (anthony howe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: gnu awk questions
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Date: 18 Sep 89 02:43:38 GMT
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I finally tried to use the last version of << GNU AWK >> that came down
the pike to do some global text search and delete (since FOLDED 0.9e
lacks the ability to search and replace control codes).

I quickly review what I needed in the book << The AWK Programming
Language >> and tried the following:

	{ gsub( /_\b/, "" ); print }

This was meant to globally search and delete all undersorce-backspace
combinations (I'm stripping a formatted file of cude underlining and
other code that mess up my printer).

However AWK keeps giving me an "error near line 1" and quotes just
about the whole line. What's wrong?

I don't even know the diffs between << GNU AWK >> and the implementation
described in the above book. There was no documentation. All I remember
was a comment or a small readme that said I should get a copy of my UNIX
version's man page. Was there any docs with << GNU AWK >> and if so are
not my rights to it being abused by not providing it (as mentioned in 
every GNU COPYING & LICENSE notice)?

- Ant
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