Re: Docs: Clarify that accessing field beyond the last one throws lint warning.

[Sebastian Carlos]

> except that $NR is the last (existing) field

‘NR’ is the number of records read so far. `NF` is the number of fields.

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 7:02 PM david kerns <david.t.kerns@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 9:14 AM Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754@gmail.com>
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>> 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:
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>> > awk '{ print $NR }'
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>> except that $NR is the last (existing) field ... $0 is the whole record
> (line) and $1 is the first field
> awk '{print $(NR+1)}'
> is the first non-existing field ... and hopefully, should not print a
> warning by default
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