On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> > Have you tried the getline function in awk?
> >
> Excellant (oh yeah, and lots of doh's and head slapping for me). Thanks
> Cormac and Mark.
>Hmm. Couldn't get that working for a while. It seems that using "getline
<file" actually open the file, and leaves the file pointer at the next
line. This means that the next time I call getline I get nothing. I had to
put in "close(file)" to get the expected behaviour. It's fine now that I
know what's up, but it had me confused for a while.
Steve
Ps. About the bumble bees, I had meant to include a footnote to say that
yes I know they've solved the problem, but it's still a handy example.
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