freebsd-nq/contrib/awk/test/redfilnm.awk
2001-11-02 21:06:08 +00:00

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#Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 12:48:07 -0500 (CDT)
#From: Darrel Hankerson <hankedr@dms.auburn.edu>
#To: arnold@gnu.org
#Subject: [christopher.procter@bt.com: RE: Getline bug in Gawk 3.0.3]
#
#Here's a reply that came directly to me. --darrel
#
#
#From: christopher.procter@bt.com
#To: hankedr@dms.auburn.edu
#Subject: RE: Getline bug in Gawk 3.0.3
#Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 18:42:28 +0100
#
#Sorry that was me getting carried away and cut and pasting the wrong thing
#into my email
#
#The real problem seems to be that :
#BEGIN {
#for (i=1;i<10;i++){
# while((getline < "hello.txt")>0){
# print $0
# }
# close("hello.txt")
# }
#}
#works (printing the contents of hello.txt 9 times), where as:-
#
#END{
#for (i=1;i<10;i++){
# while((getline < "hello.txt")>0){
# print $0
# }
# close("hello.txt")
# }
#}
#
#doesn't, (it prints out hello.txt once followed by the iteration numbers
#from 1 to 9).
#The only difference is that one is in the BEGIN block and one in the END
#block.
#
#Sorry about the first post, I'm not a bad awk programmer, just a tired one
#:)
#
#chris
#
#> -----Original Message-----
#> From: Darrel Hankerson [SMTP:hankedr@dms.auburn.edu]
#> Sent: 18 May 1999 18:28
#> To: christopher.procter@bt.com
#> Subject: Re: Getline bug in Gawk 3.0.3
#>
#> Could you clarify? Your first script uses an apparently undefined
#> variable f.
#>
#>
#> christopher.procter@bt.com writes:
#>
#> BEGIN {
#> for (i=1;i<10;i++){
#> while((getline < "hello.txt")>0){
#> print $0
#> }
#> close(f)
#> }
#> }
#>
#> refuses to close the file and so prints the contents of hello.txt just
#> once.
#> However:-
#>
#> BEGIN {
#> f="hello.txt"
#> for (i=1;i<10;i++){
#> while((getline < f)>0){
#> print $0
#> }
#> close(f)
#> }
#> }
#>
#> works as advertised (printing the contents of hello.txt 9 times)
#> It seems like a bug in the close statement.
#>
#> --
#> --Darrel Hankerson hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
#
# srcdir is assigned on command line --- ADR
END {
f = srcdir "/redfilnm.in"
for (i = 1; i < 10; i++){
while((getline < f) > 0){
print $0
}
close(f)
}
}