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From: dean@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Dean Okamura)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AWK Bug?
Message-ID: <1430@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 1 Mar 88 16:10:16 GMT
References: <729@senilix.liu.se>
Reply-To: dean@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Dean Okamura)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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Keywords: awk

<729@senilix.liu.se> wrote that:
> Recently, Alfred Aho and Ravi Sethi wrote an article in Software, 
> Practice & Experience about maintaining cross references in manuscripts.
>
> ...
> 
> For some reason, inserting 'foo' after the "/" did the trick:
> 
> 	grep -h "^\.@tag" sample | awk '
> 			{ print "s/" $3 "/" foo ++value[$2] "/g" }
> 		END	{ print "/^\\.@tag/d" }
> 	' > xref.script
> 	sed -f xref.script sample > out
> 
> This was on a Sun 3/50 running SunOS 3.2 (UNIX 4.2BSD).

I encountered the same problem but I used parentheses around the
++value[$2] which looks a little better:

			{ print "s/" $3 "/" (++value[$2]) "/g" }
-- 
Dean Okamura
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 301-260A, 4800 Oak Grove Drive,
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