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==It's a programming language==
Can't we state up front that AWK is a programming language? It's a very good scripting language, but the current definition seems to skip around the obvious. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 21:29, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
== GAWK vs MAWK vs NetBSD-AWK vs ... ==
<lang awk>$ gawk --version | head -1
GNU Awk 4.1.4, API: 1.1 (GNU MPFR 3.1.5, GNU MP 6.1.2)
$ gawk 'BEGIN { print "0x1f"+0 }'
0
$ gawk 'BEGIN { print strtonum("0x1f") }'
31
</lang>
<lang awk>$ dpkg --status mawk | grep ^Version:
Version: 1.3.3-17+b3
$ mawk 'BEGIN { print "0x1f"+0 }'
31
$ mawk 'BEGIN { print strtonum("0x1f") }'
mawk: line 2: function strtonum never defined
</lang>
<lang awk>$ uname -a
NetBSD sdf 8.0_RC1 NetBSD 8.0_RC1 (GENERIC) #6: Thu Apr 26 07:48:08 EDT 2018 christos@sixthavenue.astron.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
$ awk 'BEGIN { print "0x1f"+0 }'
31
$ awk 'BEGIN { print strtonum("0x1f") }'
awk: calling undefined function strtonum
source line number 1
</lang>
Ok, GNU utilities are known to get bloated by tons of features until they are capable of doing everything except making coffee but in this case GAWK seems to have done a step away from MAWK and NetBSD's AWK. From the original AWK too? How does the oldest AWK you can get your hands on behave for...
<lang awk>$ awk 'BEGIN { print "0x1f"+0 }'</lang>
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