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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] is there any good reason why awk does this?
Date: Mon,  8 Sep 2003 09:09:49 +0000
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Hi boyd,,

> > What will it do for
> >
> >     exit foo
>
> smash it into a string.

Oh dear.  Why not leave awk's `exit' alone so it works as every awk
script in the world expects and add `exits'?

Cheers,


Ralph.