Re: [bug-gawk] exit in BEGIN without trigger END

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Peng Yu <address@hidden> asks on  Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:45:44 -0600
about avoiding the END action if the BEGIN action issues an exit() call.

This should be easy to do without changing awk implementations:

BEGIN { ... ; disable_end = 1 ; exit(0) }

END   { if (!disable_end) { ... } }

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