Effective Awk Programming

"Effective awk Programming, "3rd Edition, focuses entirely on "awk," exploring it in the greatest depth of the three "awk" titles we carry. It's an excellent companion piece to the more broadly focused second edition. This book provides complete coverage of the "gawk" 3.1 language as well as the most up-to-date coverage of the POSIX standard for "awk" available anywhere. Author Arnold Robbins clearly distinguishes standard "awk" features from GNU "awk" "(gawk)"-specific features, shines light into many of the "dark corners" of the language (areas to watch out for when programming), and devotes two full chapters to example programs. A brand new chapter is devoted to TCP/IP networking with gawk. He includes a summary of how the "awk" language evolved. The book also covers: Internationalization of "gawk" Interfacing to i18n at the "awk" level Two-way pipes TCP/IP networking via the two-way pipe interface The new PROCINFO array, which provides information about running "gawk" Profiling and pretty-printing "awk" programs In addition to covering the "awk" language, this book serves as the official "User's Guide" for the GNU implementation of "awk" ("gawk"), describing in an integrated fashion the extensions available to the System V Release 4 version of "awk" that are also available in "gawk," As the official "gawk" User's Guide, this book will also be available electronically, and can be freely copied and distributed under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's Free Documentation License (FDL). A portion of the proceeds from sales of this book will go to the Free Software Foundation to support further development of free and opensource software. The third edition of "Effective awk Programming" is a GNU Manual and is published by O'Reilly & Associates under the Free Software Foundation's Free Documentation License (FDL). A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book is donated to the Free Software Foundation to further development of GNU software. This book is also available in electronic form; you have the freedom to modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.Robbins, Arnold is the author of 'Effective Awk Programming' with ISBN 9780596000707 and ISBN 0596000707.