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Re: Emulating "include" in gawk?
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Davide Brini |
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Re: Emulating "include" in gawk? |
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Fri, 8 Apr 2011 20:21:26 +0100 |
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 16:04:43 +0000 (UTC) fork <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is there an idiom or convention for emulating an include statement,
> wherein outside library code is brought into a gawk program?
>
> I know it isn't posix, but the two features that hold me back from using
> awk all the time are the lack of a library system and the lack of a
> strict option (like "set -u" in shell). But maybe there are somewhat
> standard workarounds.
>
> Oh -- I don't want to use another different system that I have to install
> and track like "igawk" or whatever it is.
Arnold was planning to add an @include keyword to the development version
of awk, but I don't know if that has been added yet. In any case, with awk
it has always been possible to specify multiple -f switches on the command
line, some of which may of course point to library files.
--
D.