Re: Problem with File input in gawk on Win32

[Aharon Robbins]

As far as I can tell, gawk is behaving as it's documented to.
The BEGIN action executes before any input is read.  At that
point, $0 is empty, so it should print a single newline.
If there's nothing else in the program, the input is never read.

I suspect that if you put

        { print $0 }

into a file and run it, it will work with no problems.  You
might wish to pick up a good book on awk programming. See
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/awkprog3 for one that I
recommend.

Arnold Robbins

> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 01:43:54 -0400
> From: Reza Ghorieshi <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Problem with File input in gawk on Win32 
>
> Hello,
>
> I am having a problem the automated file input feature in gawk under
> win32 (DOS - windows 2000).  I am using the following command:
>
>     c:\gawk -f  program-file  input-file1
>
> Unfortunately, the input-file is never read by the program. Thus, given
> a none empty input file, and a program file containing:  BEGIN {print
> $0}
> it prints nothing.
>
> However,   c:\gawk "{print $0}" input-file1  works fine.
>
> I am forced to use the:   while ((getline < "input-file1") > 0)
> method, which I very much would like to avoid.
>
> Any advise/assistance you can provide is much appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Reza