On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 05:48:31 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote:
>
>I was only referring to \n in the pattern used in awk's general "pattern
>{action}" syntax, where the pattern
>is matched against text being read. I should have qualified my statement.
>
This is a characteristic not of awk's pattern matching but of awk's input
processing. Awk discards the delimiting "\n" like gets() rather than
retaining it like fgets().
-- gil
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