On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 07:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:22:18 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi
> <bon...@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.
I suspect it is a transcription error by Robert in his email.
>From man awk:
sub(r, t, s)
substitutes t for the first occurrence of the regular
expression
r in the string s. If s is not given, $0 is used.
So the correct syntax is:
sub("[a-z]", " &", nr)
Wayne
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