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From: porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.awk
Subject: Re: AWK language trivia
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 05:32:49 -0000 (UTC)
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Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

> In article <va3k5u$3n2um$1@dont-email.me>,
> Mike Sanders <porkchop@invalid.foo> wrote:
>>just in case...
>>
>>not sure its wise to use 'm += var' with digits:
>>
>>m += string # valid
>>m += "7"    # may be invalid if its a digit (even if quoted)
> 
> In AWK, these are very different things.
> 
> += is always arithmetic; it is not string concatenation at all.

Ahh... Many thanks as always Kenny. When our brains are uploaded
to the great cyborg in the sky in the future, I'll be looking
for a copy of your awk knowledge.

See elsewhere in this group a soon to be posted question titled:

'{} Questions'

Wondering if what I'm thinking is good/bad logic... 

-- 
:wq
Mike Sanders