Source code for the programs in Effective Awk Programming

Kenny McCormack

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Jul 31, 2015, 9:22:46 PM7/31/15

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Is there someplace online that I can get the source for the programs listed
in EAP?

Or do I have to try to OCR them?

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Janis Papanagnou

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Aug 1, 2015, 2:25:01 AM8/1/15

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On 01.08.2015 03:22, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> Is there someplace online that I can get the source for the programs listed
> in EAP?
>
> Or do I have to try to OCR them?

The book is available online[*], so I don't think you need OCR. Or is
there missing anything? (Have a look into chapters 10 and 11.)

Or, to extract all (pre-formatted code and data) at once instead of
copy/pasting them individually, extract it from the html source; e.g.

awk '/<pre/,/<\/pre/{print /<\/?pre/?"":$0}' gawk.html

Janis

[*] https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html

Kenny McCormack

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Aug 1, 2015, 10:50:37 AM8/1/15

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In article <mphonr$tfp$1...@news.m-online.net>,

Thanks for the pointer. I think I'll be able to dig what I need out of
this.

Still, it would be nice if there was a simple source-code-only download
(Zipped, presumably) for the listings in the book. I think there is, I
just don't have any idea where it would be...

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Hermann Peifer

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Aug 1, 2015, 11:44:57 AM8/1/15

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On 2015-08-01 3:22, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> Is there someplace online that I can get the source for the programs listed
> in EAP?
>

You could have a look at:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/tree/awklib/eg

Hermann

Kenny McCormack

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Aug 2, 2015, 11:44:14 AM8/2/15

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In article <mpipho$i85$1...@news.albasani.net>,

Yes, amazingly enough, that seems to be it.

Funny, because I assumed that that collection would be the samples from the
GAWK distribution, not the ones from the book, but, in fact, those two
things turn out to be one and the same.

So, the bottom line is that if you have the unpacked GAWK distribution on
your system (i.e., if you've ever built GAWK from source), then you already
have the programs from the book. Yey!

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Manuel Collado

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Aug 3, 2015, 7:34:51 AM8/3/15

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El 02/08/2015 a las 17:44, Kenny McCormack escribió:
> In article <mpipho$i85$1...@news.albasani.net>,
> Hermann Peifer <pei...@gmx.eu> wrote:
>> On 2015-08-01 3:22, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>>> Is there someplace online that I can get the source for the programs listed
>>> in EAP?
>>
>> You could have a look at:
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/tree/awklib/eg
>
> Yes, amazingly enough, that seems to be it.
>
> Funny, because I assumed that that collection would be the samples from the
> GAWK distribution, not the ones from the book, but, in fact, those two
> things turn out to be one and the same.
>
> So, the bottom line is that if you have the unpacked GAWK distribution on
> your system (i.e., if you've ever built GAWK from source), then you already
> have the programs from the book. Yey!
>

The fact is that the gawk build process automagically extracts the code
fragments from the gawk.texi file and creates de awklib/eg directory.