gawk continuations

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2 total messages Started by Francois Pinard Sat, 13 Jan 1990 20:04

#591

Author: Francois Pinard
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1990 20:04

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The documentation says:

   If you would like to split a single statement into two lines at a
   point where a newline would terminate it, you can "continue" it by
   ending the first line with a backslash character, `\'.  This is
   allowed absolutely anywhere in the statement, even in the middle of a
   string or regular expression.  For example:

But it does not seem to work, at least for strings.  The following input:

------------------------------------------------------------>
BEGIN {
  print "A single line \
continued"
}
------------------------------------------------------------<

yields:

------------------------------------------------------------>
gawk -v -f test.awk
Gnu Awk (gawk) 2.10beta 07 Apr 1989
gawk:  syntax error near line 2:



 ^ parse error
------------------------------------------------------------<

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Re: gawk continuations

#592

Author: Arnold Robbins
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 19:50

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In article <9001132004.AA07727@kovic.IRO.UMontreal.CA> mcgill-vision!iros1!pinard@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Francois Pinard) writes:
>But it does not seem to work, at least for strings.  The following input:
>------------------------------------------------------------>
>BEGIN {
>  print "A single line \
>continued"
>}

Unfortunately, this is still broken, even in 2.11.1.  Hopefully we'll
be able to fix for either the next patch or the next release (whichever
comes first).

>Gnu Awk (gawk) 2.10beta 07 Apr 1989

In the meantime, this is an OLD version of gawk.  Get 2.11.1 from
prep.ai.mit.edu or osu-cis; you want it, you really do.
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