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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: awk syntax
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Submitted-by: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)

In article <1991May11.224436.25175@uunet.uu.net> arnold@audiofax.com writes:
> (How do I know that        awk 'BEGIN { print "hi" } ; END { print "bye" }'
> is legal while             awk 'BEGIN { print "hi" }   END { print "bye" }'
> isn't?  Presenting a grammar for the language is almost a necessity...)

It isn't? I use the latter all the time!
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