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This chapter discusses advanced features in gawk
.
It’s a bit of a “grab bag” of items that are otherwise unrelated
to each other.
First, we look at a command-line option that allows gawk
to recognize
nondecimal numbers in input data, not just in awk
programs.
Then, gawk
’s special features for sorting arrays are presented.
Next, two-way I/O, discussed briefly in earlier parts of this
Web page, is described in full detail, along with the basics
of TCP/IP networking. Finally, we see how gawk
can profile an awk
program, making it possible to tune
it for performance.
Additional advanced features are discussed in separate chapters of their own:
gawk
, discusses how to internationalize
your awk
programs, so that they can speak multiple
national languages.
awk
Programs, describes gawk
’s built-in command-line
debugger for debugging awk
programs.
gawk
, describes how you can use
gawk
to perform arbitrary-precision arithmetic.
gawk
,
discusses the ability to dynamically add new built-in functions to
gawk
.
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