On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:48:06 -0500, Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>I'm trying to figure out how I can test the return value of a printf
>statement in an awk script.
>
>printf "format", variable
>if (condition==bad) {exit 1} # if printf failed, exit
>
>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
