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From: mcgill-vision!iros1!pinard@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Francois Pinard)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: gawk continuations
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Date: 13 Jan 90 20:04:12 GMT
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The documentation says:

   If you would like to split a single statement into two lines at a
   point where a newline would terminate it, you can "continue" it by
   ending the first line with a backslash character, `\'.  This is
   allowed absolutely anywhere in the statement, even in the middle of a
   string or regular expression.  For example:

But it does not seem to work, at least for strings.  The following input:

------------------------------------------------------------>
BEGIN {
  print "A single line \
continued"
}
------------------------------------------------------------<

yields:

------------------------------------------------------------>
gawk -v -f test.awk
Gnu Awk (gawk) 2.10beta 07 Apr 1989
gawk:  syntax error near line 2:



 ^ parse error
------------------------------------------------------------<

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Franc,ois Pinard                                    pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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