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Re: [gawk] Test return value of awk statement
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Dan Henry |
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Re: [gawk] Test return value of awk statement |
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Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:02:57 -0700 |
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:48:06 -0500, Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com>
wrote:
>I'm trying to figure out how I can test the return value of a printf
>statement in an awk script.
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>printf "format", variable
>if (condition==bad) {exit 1} # if printf failed, exit
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>I have been unable to find what the "condition" in the pseudo-awk above
>might be.
Why would it fail? stdout closed? Anyway, I can't answer
definitively, but am interested and thus I suggest you ask on
comp.lang.awk also.
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Dan Henry