Re: No ord() Hampers One-liners.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Aharon,

> Please do some more reading in the gawk manual.

Yes, I should have gone up a couple of levels from where Google put me.
Sorry.

> There is a fighting chance that on GNU/Linux systems you'll find
> /usr/share/awk/ord.awk already installed.

Yes, I have!  Thanks very much.  I've perused all that's there.

> You may also wish to investigate the igawk script, described in the
> gawk doc and often installed in a standard place as well.

Ta.  Below's a brief patch for igawk.1.

BTW, I did try and check the mailing list archives but it seems bug-gawk
isn't one of those hosted at http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/  Is
there an archive?  Perhaps http://mail-archive.com/ could be subscribed
and it referenced from the documentation?

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Cheers,
Ralph.


--- igawk.1.orig        2010-01-18 14:54:38.000000000 +0000
+++ igawk.1     2010-01-18 14:54:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 See
 .IR gawk (1)
 for a full description of the AWK language and the options that
-.I gawk
+.I igawk
 supports.
 .SH EXAMPLES
 .nf