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Docs: Clarify that accessing field beyond the last one throws lint warni
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Sebastian Carlos |
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Docs: Clarify that accessing field beyond the last one throws lint warning. |
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Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:36:01 +0200 |
Hello,
Section "4.2 Examining Fields" of the manual says:
> If you try to reference a field beyond the
> last one (such as ‘$8’ when the record has only seven fields), you get
> the empty string.
I think it would be nice to say that doing so throws a warning when the
linter is on:
> warning: reference to uninitialized field
I think this is significant because the next section of the docs even has
an example
that would show that warning if running it with the linter on:
> awk '{ print $NR }'
Thanks for your time.
- Docs: Clarify that accessing field beyond the last one throws lint warning.,
Sebastian Carlos <=