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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: printing words without newlines?
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 15:55:35 +0200
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On 16.05.2024 15:11, Ed Morton wrote:
> On 5/11/2024 11:57 PM, David Chmelik wrote:
>> I'm learning more AWK basics and wrote function to read file, sort,
>> print.  I use GNU AWK (gawk) and its sort but printing is harder to get
>> working than anything... separate lines work, but when I use printf() or
>> set ORS then use print (for words one line) all awk outputs (on FreeBSD
>> UNIX 14 and Slackware GNU/Linux 15) is a space (and not even newline
>> before shell prompt)... 
> 
> [...]
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> # print_file_words.awk
>> # pass filename to function
>> BEGIN { print_file_words("data.txt"); }
>>
>> # read two-column array from file and sort lines and print
>> function print_file_words(file) {
>> # set record separator then use print
>> # ORS=" "
> 
> Move the above to a BEGIN section so it is executed once total instead
> of once per input line.

A function definition called once from the BEGIN section isn't
called "once per input line".

Janis

> 
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