From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <00cc01c375ef$13f0fd60$b9844051@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <345b.3f5a599b.2f936@blake.inputplus.co.uk> Subject: Re: [9fans] is there any good reason why awk does this? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:53:37 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2ee3a4e2-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Oh dear. Why not leave awk's `exit' alone so it works as every awk > script in the world expects and add `exits'? nope. it's smashed into a string _anyway_.