gawk can't run an awk program...

[z.entropic]

I recently found that gawk chokes on a program that awk (MKS 9.1) has
no problem with:

FNR == 1 { PrintData() }
END { PrintData() }
[...]
function PrintData() { [...] }

gawk crashes with a message "gawk: test.awk:3: END blocks must have an
action part"

I'm not sure what that means; can't gawk accept 'function' as an
action, but awk can?

--Tony

[Hermann Peifer]

Works fine here with gawk 3.1.5 and 3.1.6. What does gawk --version say?

Hermann

[Aharon Robbins]

Please send me offline the program and a data file, because this sounds
really strange. Also please check your version of gawk & let me know
what system you're using, how gawk was compiled and so on. See node "Bugs"
in the gawk doc for the best way to report bugs or problems.

Thanks,

Arnold

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