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From: lm@arizona.edu (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AWK Bug?
Message-ID: <4093@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 88 00:08:11 GMT
References: <729@senilix.liu.se>
Reply-To: lm@megaron.arizona.edu.UUCP (Larry McVoy)
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson
Lines: 35
Keywords: awk

In article <729@senilix.liu.se> kjepo@senilix.liu.se (Kjell Post) writes:
>For some reason, inserting 'foo' after the "/" did the trick:
>
>	grep -h "^\.@tag" sample | awk '
>			{ print "s/" $3 "/" foo ++value[$2] "/g" }

Oh yeah, I remember this one.  One of the authors was feeling playful and
added a variable "bar" to the source code of awk.  The print routine has
this line <if (!strcmp(bar, "foo")) goto tryagain>.  Apparently, he liked
the variable foo.

Really.




















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