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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!navarra
  3. From: navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra)
  4. Subject: Re: Associative arrays in [gn]awk --whynot! (long but interesting)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug22.034437.7386@news.acns.nwu.edu>
  6. Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns)
  7. Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
  8. References: <1992Aug15.021954.27159@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1992Aug21.152622.4819@bnr.ca> <1992Aug22.032705.6993@news.acns.nwu.edu>
  9. Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:44:37 GMT
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  12. In article <1992Aug22.032705.6993@news.acns.nwu.edu> navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra) writes:
  13. >
  14. >        3) Nawk, gawk, and awk all print out associative arrays in 
  15. >           different screwed ways. Although each is predictable, none
  16. >           of them work properly. Obviously, most of you responding
  17. >           to this message know that they don't work right -- but know
  18. >           also, that they do not work differently. 
  19. >         
  20.     That last line should read "that they do not work, differently"
  21. meaning that none of them work AND they all don't work differently. Is
  22. that clear enough?
  23.  
  24. -tms
  25. -- 
  26. From the Lab of the MaD ScIenTiST:
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  28. navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu        
  29.