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Re: C is not Perl. (Score:2, Interesting)

by jmcnamara (659)

I recently spent some time staring at the following C code and wondering why it was giving a parse error:
if (p) { p++ } /* Error 1 */

But worse still was the following (simplified) awk program that returned 0 for the number of counted words:
awk '{$c += NF} END{print $c}' file # Error 2

--
John.

1. Missing statement terminator. 2. Should be c instead of $c.
ecode (Score:2)

by darobin (1316)

It's smarter <pre> .

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-- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]

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