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gawk's "for" does not allow simple-statements.
From: |
David Jones |
Subject: |
gawk's "for" does not allow simple-statements. |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Jan 2002 13:46:33 +0000 |
In a for statement:
for(x;;y)
x and y are both allowed to be simple_statement (in the single unix spec
Version 2, but also in the IEEE P1003.1, Draft 7, Issue 6).
That means the following ought to work (outputting "9\n").
./gawk 'BEGIN{for(print 9;0;);}'
but it doesn't (I get parse error).
Cheers,
drj
# versions etc
$ ./gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.0
$ uname -a
FreeBSD topcat.zoonami.com 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 1
14:13:13 GMT 2001 address@hidden:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
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