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AWK is a programming language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams. | AWK is a programming language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams. | ||
"AWK is a language for processing files of text. A file is treated as a sequence of records, and by default each line is a record. Each line is broken up into a sequence of fields, so we can think of the first word in a line as the first field, the second word as the second field, and so on. An AWK program is of a sequence of pattern-action statements. AWK reads the input a line at a time. A line is scanned for each pattern in the program, and for each pattern that matches, the associated action is executed." - Alfred V. Aho | "AWK is a language for processing files of text. A file is treated as a sequence of records, and by default each line is a record. Each line is broken up into a sequence of fields, so we can think of the first word in a line as the first field, the second word as the second field, and so on. An AWK program is of a sequence of pattern-action statements. AWK reads the input a line at a time. A line is scanned for each pattern in the program, and for each pattern that matches, the associated action is executed." | ||
- Alfred V. Aho | |||
==Links== | |||
http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/gawk.html | |||
== Examples == | |||
* [[energies]] | |||
* [[Macromodel_to_gaussian]] | |||
Latest revision as of 12:56, 9 February 2010
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AWK is a programming language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams.
"AWK is a language for processing files of text. A file is treated as a sequence of records, and by default each line is a record. Each line is broken up into a sequence of fields, so we can think of the first word in a line as the first field, the second word as the second field, and so on. An AWK program is of a sequence of pattern-action statements. AWK reads the input a line at a time. A line is scanned for each pattern in the program, and for each pattern that matches, the associated action is executed." - Alfred V. Aho
Links[edit]
http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/gawk.html