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Another surprising AWK trick

Posted by Bob_Mesibov on
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If you tell AWK that you're doing arithmetic operations on strings beginning with numbers, it ignores the non-number parts of the string. On the other hand, if you happen to be going to St Ives and meet 7 wives, 7 sacks, 7 cats...

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