Re: [9fans] hoc output format

[Alexander Sychev <santucco@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 13 May 2010 17:24:47 +0400, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>  
wrote:

> On Thu May 13 03:51:56 EDT 2010, santucco@gmail.com wrote:
>> Yes, I'm agree, but with one exception - awk(1) separates a data from a
>> code, hoc(1) doesn't do it. So hoc(1) can be used for plain calculation
>> tasks, not for  processing input files with a data.
>
> both awk and hoc accept standard input

Yes, but for hoc(1) it can be some program, for awk(1) it can be a data  
only :-) - that is what I meant :-)

> echo 1 2 | hoc -e '{while(read(x) != 0)y += x' ^ $nl ^ ' print y, "\n"}'

Maybe it makes a sense to add in hoc(1) expression delimiter like a ';'?

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Best regards,
   santucco