mogando668

suggestion how to read binary input directly with gawk

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hmmm what do you mean by that ? here's a fully-functional hex-encoder for gawk (sorry for the poor formatting - i dug it up from my pile) even in gawk...

shortest possible awk program ?

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the absolute shortest program i can think of is `awk ''` that depends on whether blocking everything through the inputs and pipe counts as "doing stuff"" or not. to make...

suggestion : counting chars vs. counting bytes

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``` " awk 'length($1) < 6' table.txt echo 'αλεπού' | awk '{print length()}' echo 'αλεπού' | awk -b '{print length()}' echo 'αλεπού' | LC_ALL=C awk '{print length()}'" ``` one doesn't...

less of an "issue" more like a suggestion since your code already queries the true-false array of `_penc[ ]`, why not directly store the post-encoded view inside `_penc[ ]` e.g....

Dear Mr. Dickey setting both `CONVFMT `and `OFMT `to `%.f` results in `18446744073709551615` yet, `print sprintf("%.f", 16^16)` results in `%.f :: 18446744073709551616` While I understand your stated rationale…. ``` [20200911](https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#index-t20200911)...

byte counter is word counter . awk

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hi, just a very minor comment - summing up length($0) only works if the input is guaranteed to be ASCII-only. i accidentally discovered that, even if gawk unicode mode, to...

all of these are positive values, but frequently `abs()` erroneously negate them, cuz the function was performing a string compare, in which leading-edge spaces ( `" "` ) , tabs...

Please bring back old feature of having the option to have comments left-padded with an extra space

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### Current issue Maybe languages that begin comments with `//` or `/*` are happy with no extra padding, which is totally fine by me - everyone have their own favs....