Re: Emulating "include" in gawk?

[Davide Brini]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 16:04:43 +0000 (UTC) fork <address@hidden> wrote:

> Is there an idiom or convention for emulating an include statement,
> wherein outside library code is brought into a gawk program?
> 
> I know it isn't posix, but the two features that hold me back from using
> awk all the time are the lack of a library system and the lack of a
> strict option (like "set -u" in shell).  But maybe there are somewhat
> standard workarounds.
> 
> Oh -- I don't want to use another different system that I have to install
> and track like "igawk" or whatever it is.  

Arnold was planning to add an @include keyword to the development version
of awk, but I don't know if that has been added yet. In any case, with awk
it has always been possible to specify multiple -f switches on the command
line, some of which may of course point to library files.

-- 
D.