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From: drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.lang.misc
Subject: New (UnixTC) awk - warning
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 11:26:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 11:26:59 1987
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root@investor.UUCP (Bob Peirce) writes:
> 'BEGIN {
> 	stuff
> }{
> 	more stuff
> }'
> 
> The manual
> states on p.22 that "The opening brace of an action must be on the
> same line as the pattern it accompanies."

Eh?  As far as I can tell, the pattern is an implied "all lines",
physically represented by the null string immediately preceeding the
open brace.  And that null string is on the same line as the open
brace.

What am I missing?

Dale
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