arn...@skeeve.com wrote: >I have to toot my own horn a bit: > >http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/ > >The manual is careful to distinguish standard awk from gnu awk >features. > >If someone is up to porting gawk 4.0 to Plan 9, I'd be interested to >help! > >Thanks, > >Arnold
Mr. Robbins' book is a gold mine--and here I must say thanks, sir, for both the outstanding documentation and the indispensable code! I also have to third the classic text. The example code itself I'd consider necessary reading, and that you can download for free on "The Awk Programming Language" site. The text itself isn't online or very cheap but try ABEBooks. You wouldn't regret the purchase. TAPL is always right on my desk. Excellent explanation of the awk model and design. Just yesterday I was re-reading the chapter on relational databases for a little script to help with our household cashflow projection. That chapter takes awk about as far as I can imagine it being reasonable, and Kernighan et al make it easy to understand.
