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Article #534Re: awk bug (or is it a feature)
From: P. D. Guthrie
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1986 20:18
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1986 20:18
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In article <800@brahma.cs.hw.AC.UK> pjbk@cs.hw.ac.uk (Peter King) writes:
>Our version of awk does not allow one to use a field specified
>by a numerical expression as the left hand side of an expression.
>
>The file below will pass the standard input through unmodified,
>although it is designed to replace the last field in each record
>with "LAST FIELD". Is this a bug or a feature?
> -----------------------
> { $NF = "LAST FIELD"
> print}
This works fine for me, so you must have a bug in your release.
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