aerts@neabbs.UUCP (AD AERTS) (03/22/90)
Has anyone ever seen an AWK-compiler? AWK-to-C would be fine too. +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ | Ad Aerts | It's a shame each of my messages sees more of | | AERTS@HUTRUU52.BITNET | the world than I ever will... | | aerts@media00.uucp | | +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) (03/27/90)
In article <338774@neabbs.UUCP> aerts@neabbs.UUCP (AD AERTS) writes: > >Has anyone ever seen an AWK-compiler? AWK-to-C would be fine too. Mail bounced so... Look into the document "A supplemental document for awk" subtitled "things Al, Pete, and Brian didn't mention much". I snarfed it off the net a few years ago and it's probably archived somewhere. Anyway, it says -- begin direct quoting -- 2.5 Script "Compilation" [It is likely that this does not work at most sites. If it does not, the following will probably not be of interest to the casual user.] The command awk -S -f script.awk produces a file named awk.out. This is a core image of awk after parsing the file script.awk. The command awk -Rawk.out datafile causes awk.out to be applied to datafile (or the standard input if no file is given). Unfortunately, the way this is implemented requires some special action on the part of the person installing awk. -- end quoting -- It's a good document, and I suspect I'm going to get bazillions of requests to post it :-) -- jim jharkins@sagpd1 We are all aware of the high cost of alcohol abuse. To help solve this problem take this signature to your local liquor store for $1.00 off your next purchase.