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Re: traditional awk: lazy splitting of $0?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: traditional awk: lazy splitting of $0? |
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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:03:35 -0700 |
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Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> Can I rely on the fact that splitting of $0 is done lazily?
I vaguely recall that traditional Awk worked that way, yes. Sort of
lazily, anyway: it split all of $0 if you accessed any $i where i>0.
> works with Solaris 2.6 awk
If it works with an awk that old, that's probably good enough.