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From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] awk bug
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 03:04:35 -0700
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I'm not sure if `$f[0]' should work as you intend
(maybe `($f)[0]' is the right parse), but parentheses
can fix things to work as you intend:

; echo a b c | awk 'BEGIN { f[0] = 2 }
		{ print $(f[0]) }'
b