New version of GNU Awk 5.0 interpreter

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Submitted by new major release of the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming language - Gawk 5.0.0. AWK was developed in the 70s of the last century and has not undergone significant changes since the mid-80s, in which the basic backbone of the language was defined, which has allowed it to maintain the pristine stability and simplicity of the language over the past decades. Despite its advanced age, AWK is still actively used by administrators to perform routine work related to parsing various types of text files and generating simple resulting statistics.

Key changes:

• Implemented support for namespaces;
• Added support for the "%a" and "%A" format specifiers defined in the POSIX standard for the printf function;
• Routines for processing regular expressions have been replaced with analogues from Gnulib;
• Added PROCINFO["platform"] element with a string identifying the platform gawk is built for;
• Writing to SYMTAB elements that are not variable names now results in an error;
• The code for processing comments has been redesigned, problems with displaying comments in formatted output have been resolved.

Sourceopennet.ru

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Submitted by new major release of the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming language - Gawk 5.0.0. AWK was developed in the 70s of the last century and has not undergone significant changes since the mid-80s, in which the basic backbone of the language was defined, which has allowed it to maintain the pristine stability and simplicity of the language over the past decades. Despite its advanced age, AWK is still actively used by administrators to perform routine work related to parsing various types of text files and generating simple resulting statistics.

Key changes:

• Implemented support for namespaces;
• Added support for the "%a" and "%A" format specifiers defined in the POSIX standard for the printf function;
• Routines for processing regular expressions have been replaced with analogues from Gnulib;
• Added PROCINFO["platform"] element with a string identifying the platform gawk is built for;
• Writing to SYMTAB elements that are not variable names now results in an error;
• The code for processing comments has been redesigned, problems with displaying comments in formatted output have been resolved.

Source: opennet.ru

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