Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
|> (For the list: mawk(1) requires a fflush("") in order to "getline <
|> NAME" a file NAME that has been written via "print >> NAME" before,
|> even though fflush("") is not standard and i cannot imagine a
|> situation where an awk(1) script would not like to see a fflush("") on
|> NAME before it starts a getline.)
|
|Can you not close() NAME after writing to it before re-opening it for
|getline? From mawk(1):
|
| Close is used to reread a file or command,
Bummer. Never used close(), never seen it. Didn't try yet, but
it'll surely fix the problem with mawk(1).
Thanks Ralph. (Poor Thomas Dickey, excuse me, excuse me.)
--steffen
