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| From | gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) |
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| Subject | Re: GAWK mystery parses |
| Date | Fri, 3 Oct 2025 07:06:07 -0000 (UTC) |
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In article <20251002231443.863@kylheku.com>,
Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
>On 2025-10-03, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
>> The topic for today is: What can we get away with for clause 3 of a "for"
>> statement.
>>
>> Observe (notice that the print statement is *inside* the for statement):
>>
>> First, we use a print statement as clause 3:
>> % gawk4 'BEGIN { for (i=1; i<=5; print "i =",i++); }'
>> i = 1
>> i = 2
>> i = 3
>> i = 4
>> i = 5
>
>That's interesting, and useless; yet, stupidly, you cannot have comma
>expressions like for (i = 0, j = 0; ...
TAWK allows that syntax, but only in the "for" statement. It doesn't allow
it as a general expression (outside of "for"), like C does.
>What you found is not portable:
I'm not surprised. I was just amazed it works at all.
--
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GAWK mystery parses gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-10-03 04:36 +0000
Re: GAWK mystery parses Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-03 06:20 +0000
Re: GAWK mystery parses gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-10-03 07:06 +0000
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