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Re: [bug-gawk] Field splitting in gawk
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Davide Brini |
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Re: [bug-gawk] Field splitting in gawk |
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Date: |
Mon, 30 Dec 2013 23:32:37 +0100 |
> From: address@hidden
> Sent: 12/30/13 11:53 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [bug-gawk] Field splitting in gawk
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> In some cases the splitting into fields is not necessary,
> see for instance:
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> http://stackoverflow.com/a/20779529/2173773
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> It would be nice to have a feature like setting
> FIELDWIDTHS="0"
> to mean no field splitting is done and
> $0==$1
> and
> NF=1
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> The purpose of this suggested feature is to improve efficiency.
Obviously Arnold has the last word here, but AFAIK gawk is already optimized to
not do field splitting unless it really has to.