Re: [ns] problem with awk script

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Giuseppe Tringali wrote:

> I've saved it as end-to-end.awk. At the prompt I have typed:
> 
> awk -f end-to-end.awk out.tr > end.tr
> 
> I get this error message:
> 
> awk: end-to-end.awk:1: BEGIN {
> ' in expression.awk:1:        ^ Invalid char '
> 
> Where is my mistake?

looks like cutting and pasting from a browser window introduced a
space, or there's something weird with CR/LF conversion.

(if you don't cut and paste from a window, you get to deal with all
the > turning into > - gah, HTML.)

try playing with awk/gawk and other versions; awk's almost as bad as
TeX for lack of standard features.

L.

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