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- Submitted-by: jh@fortec.tuwien.ac.at (Johann Haider)
-
- Hello all,
- I read in the distribution of Mawk that there is a posix draft
- ( posix1003.2 draft(11.2) ) of awk, therefore I hope this article
- isn't totally misplaced :-)
-
- After I had used awk for some time some years ago I had the problem
- to parse the output of `nm' which is in hexadecimal on that platform.
- I had to write a filter program in C to convert the hex addresses to
- decimal and do the parsing afterwards.
-
- When Gnu awk came along I addeed a new function strtol() to convert
- arbitrary base numbers to decimal.
-
- As I consider this function very useful, I think it should be added to
- the standard or at least it should not be omitted from the standard
- without being discussed.
-
- If someone is in the posix comitee and such a function has been abandoned
- already I would be glad to hear about it.
-
- Thank you
- Hans
-
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- Johann Haider Rehabilitation Engineering Group
- Institute for Electronics Technical University Vienna, Austria
- Email: jh@fortec.tuwien.ac.at phone: +431 58801 3967
-
- [ In general, comp.std.unix (or the std-unix-list mailing list) is not
- the right place to work on the POSIX standard(s). It is a good place
- for *discussion*, however, which is why I've posted this. -- mod ]
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 41
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-