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gawk feature request: array assignment
From: |
Charles Obler |
Subject: |
gawk feature request: array assignment |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:46:29 -0700 (PDT) |
Hello awk people --
It would be very nice to be able to assign and return arrays. Currently, when
I attempt this, I get a fatal "attempt to use array in a scalar context" error
message.
I'm attempting to make my awk program somewhat "object-oriented", with
associative arrays taking the place of "objects" or "classes". Unfortunately,
when I try to return or store one of these "objects", awk complains.
E.g.:
vNaEl = ObjName( vName, vType, vStat) # create a name object
vNASu++ # incr array subscripb
vNArr[ vNASu] = vNaEl # save the object in the objects array
The third statement kills awk.
- gawk feature request: array assignment,
Charles Obler <=