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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: awk question: replacing "%d%s" by "%d %s"
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:22:18 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
> True.  But 
>      sub(nr,"[a-z]"," &");
> 
> does the trick.  (tested on Freebsd 7.2)
> 
> Explamation: "&" is a  'replacement side' magic incantation to the regex 
> library that means 'that which was matched by the pattern regex'.

Doesn't work on my 7-STABLE system (20080811), awk stops:

awk: syntax error at source line 78 source file konvertieren.awk
 context is
                sub(nr, "[a-z]", " >>>  &" <<< );
awk: illegal statement at source line 79 source file konvertieren.awk

But I'll keep your suggestion in the program source and test
it on 8 as soon as my "new" home system is ready to use. At
least, the & variant looks much better.


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Polytropon
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