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Re: Is it appropriate to ask user-oriented questions on this list?
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Aharon Robbins |
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Re: Is it appropriate to ask user-oriented questions on this list? |
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Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:08:10 +0200 |
In article <address@hidden> you write:
>I'm having trouble getting awk parsing to work when fields are
>separated by two different characters (space and colon).
You should probably be using -F'[: ]'.
>First off I was wondering whether this is the correct place to ask.
comp.lang.awk is for general awk questions. Read the gawk doc first to
learn the language.
>Also, I am running this on debian linux and the implementation of awk
>that was installed by default is called "mawk".
>
>This appears to be an optimized version that may differ from the gnu
>version.
It does indeed differ. It is (sadly) pretty much unsupported, although
it often does run faster than gawk.
>Please let me know if this list is appropriate for discussing such
>matters.
Have fun,
Arnold
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