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Effective Awk Programming: Text Processing and Pattern Matching by Arnold Robbins.; Safari Tech Books Online is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Effective Awk Programming: Text Processing and Pattern Matching about?

Effective awk Programming, 3rd Edition, focuses entirely on awk, exploring it in the greatest depth of the three awk titles we carry. It's an excellent companion piece to the more broadly focused second edition. This book provides complete coverage of the gawk 3.1 language as well as the most up-to-date coverage of the POSIX standard for awk available anywhere. Author Arnold Robbins clearly distinguishes standard awk features from GNU awk (gawk) -specific features, shines light into many of the "dark corners" of the language (areas to watch out for when programming), and devotes two full chapters to example programs. A brand new chapter is devoted to TCP/IP networking with gawk. He includes a summary of how the awk language evolved. The book also In addition to covering the awk language, this book serves as the official "User's Guide" for the GNU implementation of awk ( gawk ), describing in an integrated fashion the extensions available to the System V Release 4 version of awk that are also available in gawk . As the official gawk User's Guide, this book will also be available electronically, and can be freely copied and distributed under the terms of the Free Software Foundation'

Who reads Effective Awk Programming: Text Processing and Pattern Matching?

Author

Arnold Robbins.; Safari Tech Books Online

Publisher

O'Reilly Media, Inc.; O'Reilly

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780596000707

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Language Learning, Programming

Updated

2026-03-24