AwkGuide
** Work in Progress ** {{{ import from Mark Hobley's wiki }}} <toc> ---- == Overview * [[Overview]] . . . [[locale]] * [[loop]]s * [[loop modifier]]s * [[limitation]]s * [[loop]]s * [[main]] * [[mathematical . . .
4K - last updated 2011-08-14 15:57 UTC by markhobley
AwkVsPerl
A valid question, since awk is a subset of perl (functionally, not necessarily syntactically); also, . . . networking primitives may remove this particular limitation. However, there are some things in awk's . . .
2K - last updated 2011-01-22 05:33 UTC by steve
AwkVsPerlJapanese
A valid question, since awk is a subset of perl (functionally, not necessarily syntactically); also, . . . networking primitives may remove this particular limitation. However, there are some things in awk's . . .
2K - last updated 2008-11-24 08:05 UTC by pgas
Backreferences
The usual (and correct) answer for backreferences in awk (for example, the answer you can get on #awk . . . out" substrings from the input (and without the limitation of at most one match per line). See the . . .
3K - last updated 2010-12-30 06:53 UTC by ppp089210039107.dsl.hol.gr
limitation
== Limitations of awk Some traditional versions of [[awk]] derived from [[Unix]] version 7, may not conform . . . [[posix]] and may have the following operational limitations: === Whitespace is not allowed before the . . .
1K - last updated 2009-04-20 15:50 UTC by Mark Hobley
PrimeNumberSieve
This is the standard sieve of Eratosthenes implemented in portable awk. The running time of the bare . . . busybox awk does not appear to have the same limitation on the number of fields as mawk, but its . . .
4K - last updated 2008-06-19 05:56 UTC by gnomon
RangeOfFields
Printing a range of fields - all fields but the first, for examples, or fields 3 through 8 - is a surprisingly . . . example. If a single-character delimiter limitation is not a restriction, and if the fields . . .
10K - last updated 2015-09-08 09:52 UTC by pgas
WartAndWishList
Awk is a wonderful language! That said, there are a few annoying bits... == The Good * well-documented . . . parameter and use four local variables. This limitation makes writing functions with optional arguments . . .
7K - last updated 2009-04-13 18:39 UTC by goedel
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