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Re: gawk - printf discards field-width when space modifier used
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arnold |
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Re: gawk - printf discards field-width when space modifier used |
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Sun, 09 Jan 2022 01:55:36 -0700 |
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Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net> wrote:
> Actually - I'm not sure how this series of ternary expressions gets
> interpreted:
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> printf j ? " % 4d%s" : "% 4d%s", rv, (j<cols-1) ? "" : ORS > "file.txt"
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> but when I just add parens to make it more readable and express what I
> think is your intent:
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> printf (j ? " %4d%s" : "%4d%s"), rv, (j<cols-1 ? "" : ORS)
It should be interpreted as you've parenthesized. The commas in
the print statement delimit the expressions.
Arnold