Re: printing words without newlines?

On 5/16/2024 8:55 AM, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 16.05.2024 15:11, Ed Morton wrote:
>> On 5/11/2024 11:57 PM, David Chmelik wrote:
>>> I'm learning more AWK basics and wrote function to read file, sort,
>>> print.  I use GNU AWK (gawk) and its sort but printing is harder to get
>>> working than anything... separate lines work, but when I use printf() or
>>> set ORS then use print (for words one line) all awk outputs (on FreeBSD
>>> UNIX 14 and Slackware GNU/Linux 15) is a space (and not even newline
>>> before shell prompt)...
>>
>> [...]
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> # print_file_words.awk
>>> # pass filename to function
>>> BEGIN { print_file_words("data.txt"); }
>>>
>>> # read two-column array from file and sort lines and print
>>> function print_file_words(file) {
>>> # set record separator then use print
>>> # ORS=" "
>>
>> Move the above to a BEGIN section so it is executed once total instead
>> of once per input line.
> 
> A function definition called once from the BEGIN section isn't
> called "once per input line".

I didn't notice the function keyword nestled in the preceding comments 
and didn't give it much thought, thanks for pointing that out.

	Ed.