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- From: brennan@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mike Brennan)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: mawk0.97.shar 0 of 5
- Message-ID: <3962@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
- Date: 11 May 91 14:32:56 GMT
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- Mawk 0.97 an implementation of awk as defined in
- Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language,
- Addison-Wesley, 1988
- follows in 4 parts.
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- The 1988 definition of awk adds several features that
- significantly enhance the language, including expanded
- regular expression features, built-in substitution functions,
- more IO control and user defined functions.
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- Advantages of mawk:
- 1) Mawk is fast. Benchmarks against 3 other new awks are included
- in the distribution.
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- 2) The record separator, RS, is interpreted as a regular expression.
- This make operations which are basically not line oriented easier
- to program and improves performance in some cases.
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- The posting is in shar format:
- Cut off the tops, cat to a file and sh file from the directory you
- want to be the parent of the mawk0.97 directory.
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- Mike Brennan
- brennan@bcsaic.boeing.com
- 206-773-4425
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