Re: Name "index" for variable - syntax error

[Ed Morton]

`index()` is a string function, see 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#String-Functions.

    Ed.

On 3/21/2023 4:30 AM, pavel_mendl@centrum.cz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> will be brief as writing from work:
>
> as simple as 'END { index = 0 }' program shows syntax error on equal sign, while this should be 
> valid assignment. Neither in Reserved words on gawk site nor through Google I have found anything 
> about "index" to be a reserved word. However renaming to "indexa" works as 
> expected...
>
> Please take a look about this.
>
> Pavel