In a recent note, Philip Webb said:
> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 14:11:01 -0500 (EST)
>
> he has two gawk scripts, which use functions;
> we only have awk, which doesn't know about functions.
> with functions, you're more/less writing C programs anyway.
>
FWIW, the Single Unix spec at:
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Linkname: Commands & Utilities Issue 5 - Index
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Linkname: awk
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(which is usually pretty darn close to POSIX) describes
"User-defined Functions"
What system are you using? Try "nawk". If Solaris, try
"/usr/xpg4/bin/awk".
> i already said i have no interest in practising awk/sed.
That's a different matter. :-)
-- gil
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