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From: jfo@tove.cs.umd.edu (John F. Ormonde)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: AWK, while (getline ) question
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Date: 24 Apr 91 19:22:27 GMT
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I am having trouble with what should be a simple AWK program.  Does anyone
see anything wrong with this: 

{ while (getline <"test" >0)
    { rot[$1] = $4
      printf "%s \n", rot[$1] }
}

is in file zzz.   On a Sparc 1 running SunOS 4.1.1  
% awk -f zzz 
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1

test is a text file containing 
frank	1	A	A	A
brett	4	A	C	A
tom	2	B	O	W

This is reasonably similar to the example on pg 101 of the AWK Programmin 
Language book by Aho, Kernigan, and Weinberger.  SO how dense am I ?


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