Re: [bug-gawk] built-in variables in extensions

[Assaf Gordon]

Andrew J. Schorr wrote, On 12/17/2012 04:34 PM:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:16:15PM -0500, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>> Ideally, to have a way to do the following (assuming the user knows there's 
>> a column named "age"):
>>
>>     gawk -l header '$age>43' INPUT > OUTPUT
>>
>> That's all - concise and very clear.
> 
> Using the current git master tree, SYMTAB seems to do what you want.
> However, based on Arnold's comments, I'm guessing this may not be supported
> in the future:
> 

Almost! I thought so too :)

But to quote Arnold: "You can't do that":

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2012-12/msg00012.html

-gordon