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Learning AWK Programming

You're reading from   Learning AWK Programming A fast, and simple cutting-edge utility for text-processing on the Unix-like environment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788391030
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shiwang Kalkhanda Shiwang Kalkhanda
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Preface 1. Getting Started with AWK Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Regular Expressions 3. AWK Variables and Constants 4. Working with Arrays in AWK 5. Printing Output in AWK 6. AWK Expressions 7. AWK Control Flow Statements 8. AWK Functions 9. GNU's Implementation of AWK – GAWK (GNU AWK) 10. Practical Implementation of AWK

Relational expressions

Relational expressions are built using relational operators, also known as conditional or comparison operators. These operators are used to test conditions, like if or while. Relational expressions compare strings or numbers for relationships such as equality, greater than , less than, and so on.

These expressions return 1 if the condition evaluates to true and 0 if false. When comparing operands of different types, numeric operands are converted to strings using a built-in variable (using CONVFMT). Strings are compared character to character.

Equal to (==):

This relational operator is represented by the equals symbol repeated twice (==). It returns true if both operands are equal; otherwise it returns false. Here, we have to make sure not to mistype the == operator by forgetting to put one = character. In this case, the AWK code still remains valid but...

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