Re: Unexpected result while constructing strings

[Aharon Robbins]

The notes so far have pretty much got it.  Concatenation in awk isn't
based on an explicit space character, but on juxtaposition.  In short,
it's a PITA and tends to make my head hurt sometimes; an explicit operator
would have been better. (Brian Kernighan once told me, about this, "it
seemed like a good idea at the time". :-)

One of my favorites was trying, many years ago now, to figure out why

        print("some diagnostic of interest") > /dev/stderr

wasn't working like I expected.  :-) :-)

Thanks to everyone for the explanations.

Arnold
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