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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: gawk (was Re: variables in awk)
Summary: GNU awk does it too
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Date: 28 Apr 89 18:53:28 GMT
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In-reply-to: steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach)

In article <63720003@hpl-opus.HP.COM>, steinbac@hpl-opus (Gunter Steinbach) writes:
|     And sure enough, the last two input lines produced a "match" output.  So
|     no problemo!
| 
|     However, I also tried the above with the "old" awk, and it produces a
|     "syntax error near line line".  So you need the AT&T toolbox "nawk".  

Or, you can get the relatively free GNU awk, which supports an
identical mechanism (in an apparently compatible syntax, amazing! :-)

(Why do I keep being the one to tell people about GNU software...  oh
well...)

Just another hacker,
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