[9fans] native awk

[Steve Simon]

My 2¢ on the subject of native awk.
The only "native" features I have wanted are:

utf-8 clean - honestly I don't know if it is
alreay but my suspicion is that it is not.

an input parsing mode which respects rc tokenizing rules,
this would make things like du -a | awk more reliable in the
face of weird filenames.

-Steve

[erik quanstrom]

Post by Steve Simon
utf-8 clean - honestly I don't know if it is
alreay but my suspicion is that it is not.

already done.

Post by Steve Simon
an input parsing mode which respects rc tokenizing rules,
this would make things like du -a | awk more reliable in the
face of weird filenames.

can't this be done within an awk program?

- erik