Re: Rule with starting { on next line

[uzibalqa]

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On Monday, April 10th, 2023 at 8:12 AM, uzibalqa via Help-gawk 
<help-gawk@gnu.org> wrote:


> I am doing the following, which is repeating "MATCH $0 BEG_ERE" for every 
> line.
> Primarily because the starting "{" starts on the next line. Would this be a 
> bug?
> 
> match($0, beg_ere, maggr)
> {
> print "MATCH $0 BEG_ERE"
> print " " $0
> next
> }

Have been looking through the manual.  But could not find some information about
not having the opening "{" on the next line for

pattern { action }
BEGIN { action }
END { action }