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Re: nested ternary discovery

From Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.awk
Subject Re: nested ternary discovery
Date 2025-10-10 17:04 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2025-10-10, Mack The Knife <mack@the-knife.org> wrote:
> 	{ print animal[$1] }
>
> Much simpler, and each additional sound/animal pair requires
> only one additional line of code.

Without function indirection (Gawk extension), or an eval feature 
(doesn't exist in any Awk I know), you cannot dispatch actions, only
substitute values for keys.

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nested ternary discovery Mike Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-09 11:27 +0000
  Re: nested ternary discovery Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-09 17:09 +0200
    Re: nested ternary discovery Mike Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-10 19:38 +0000
    Re: nested ternary discovery Mike Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-11 11:46 +0000
      Re: nested ternary discovery Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-11 16:58 +0000
        Re: nested ternary discovery Mike Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-12 03:47 +0000
      Re: nested ternary discovery Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-12 01:54 +0200
        Re: nested ternary discovery Mike Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-12 03:49 +0000
  Re: nested ternary discovery Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-09 16:59 +0000
  Re: nested ternary discovery mack@the-knife.org (Mack The Knife) - 2025-10-10 08:10 +0000
    Re: nested ternary discovery Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-10 13:06 +0200
    Re: nested ternary discovery Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-10 17:04 +0000
      Re: nested ternary discovery mack@the-knife.org (Mack The Knife) - 2025-10-11 17:44 +0000
        Re: nested ternary discovery Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-11 18:46 +0000
          Re: nested ternary discovery mack@the-knife.org (Mack The Knife) - 2025-10-13 08:07 +0000
    Re: nested ternary discovery Mike Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-10 19:41 +0000
    Re: nested ternary discovery Mike Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> - 2025-10-11 11:55 +0000
      Re: nested ternary discovery Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-12 01:45 +0200
      Re: nested ternary discovery dave_thompson_2@comcast.net - 2025-10-12 20:58 -0400
        Re: nested ternary discovery Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-13 04:30 +0200

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