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From: purtill@morley.rutgers.edu (Mark Purtill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: g2p (gawk)
Message-ID: <Apr.10.13.14.14.1991.3807@morley.rutgers.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 17:14:15 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.190516.14429@Think.COM> <1991Apr09.193024.19792@convex.com>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>From the keyboard of rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz):
>:Is there a converter from gawk to perl?  I prefer using gawk to awk
>:because of functions and (particularly) because of multidimensional
>:arrays.
>a2p should work just fine.

	Well, not quite.  gawk has a different command line convension
for reading variables (`-v A=B' rather than just `A=B') and a2p
doesn't know about gawk's special "/dev/std..." files, so it tries to
open "/dev/stderr" and so on.  Easy to fix by hand, tho. (This is the
a2p with perl 3.0 patch-level 41).

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