Re: [bug-gawk] Is -M enabled by default?

[Andrew J. Schorr]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 06:20:09PM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> But it is still better to have a direct way to show the type info of
> variables used in awk instead of using this indirect way. Is there a
> direct way? Thanks.

This has come up before. Please take a look at this information in the
documentation:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Checking-for-MPFR.html

And you can also search the command-line arguments in the PROCINFO["argv"]
array.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Auto_002dset.html

Regards,
Andy