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From: norm@oglvee.UUCP (Norman Joseph)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AWK Language Question
Message-ID: <588@oglvee.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 90 16:39:31 GMT
References: <972@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com>
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Organization: Oglevee Computer Systems, Connellsville, Pa
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In <972@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com>, boi@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com
(Ken Boi) writes:

>According to the book "The AWK Programming Language", there
>are built-in string functions. One of them is 'gsub'. I have 
>tried using it with the following comand line statement which
>is very close to the example in the book:
> [...]
>I get the error messages:

>		awk: syntax error near line 1
>		awk: illegal statement near line 1

>Anybody know why?

The awk you are running on your system (you don't tell us what you have)
is an earlier version of the one described in _The_AWK_Programming_Language_,
which is a (relatively) recent update.  If your system is like some, you
may have the new version of awk listed under the name "nawk" (new awk).
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