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From: icsu7039@attila.cs.montana.edu (Spannring)
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Subject: Re: awk comments
Keywords: awk
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Date: 29 Apr 91 15:27:13 GMT
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>In article <6188@flint4.UUCP>, tang@motcid.UUCP (Sam D. Tang) writes:
> How does one add comments to an awk program?

You use the pound sign (#) for a comment.  The comment will stretch 
to the end of the line.  Here is an example-


>---------------cut here-------------<
# count.awk
# This awk script will count the number of words, and lines in a file.
# a word is defined as any string of characters delimited by white space
{
	# We will do the next line for every record in the file
	words += NF;
}
END {
	printf "words: %5d\n", words; # print number of words in field width of 5
	printf "lines: %5d\n", NR;    # print number of lines using width of 5
}
>---------------cut here-------------<

Note that this is not a shell script.  To run this program you will 
have to type `awk -f count.awk'

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