Re: Make division by zero legal

[Peng Yu]

This has nothing to do with the ANSI standards. mawk does it correctly.

$ mawk -f <(echo 'BEGIN {print 1/0}')
inf

On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 11:06 PM Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 at 00:28, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> No. In R, it is perfectly legal.
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> Then, by all means, do use R.
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> Suggestions for changing the awk language are most certainly not a topic for 
> this gawk help list. The address you want is the body maintaining the awk 
> ANSI standard.
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> -W
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Regards,
Peng