Re: gawk line continuation

[arnold]

Hi Dan.

dan nielsen <catskill549@yahoo.com> wrote:

> What happened between gawk 3.1.4 and 4.1.1 regarding line continuation?
> Dan Nielsen

I have omitted quoting your example because it's illegible in plain text.
In the future, please include your programs and typescripts as attachments
if you're going to use a mailer than mangles things so badly...

I saved the HTML and copy/pasted your program from it into a file. Said
file had lines that were all exactly 40 characters long, except for the
last one.  The trailing characters were all spaces.

Given that that was the case, the error message received makes perfect
sense.  I note that on Linux even gawk 3.1.4 gave an error message.
I don't know what system you're using; I'm guessing VMS.

I also note that gawk 3.1.4 is from 2003 and gawk 4.1.1 from 2014; you
need to move up to a current version. Gawk 5.1.0 is current and is fully
supported on VMS.

Hope this helps,

Arnold