chomp a newline in awk

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Re (tilly) 1: chomp a newline in awk by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 18, 2001 at 08:20 UTC
Run a2p to convert to a less awk-ward language, then do it in Perl with chomp...	[reply]
Re: chomp a newline in awk by eg (Friar) on Jan 18, 2001 at 08:25 UTC
Ewww. awk. `gsub( "\n", "" );` [download] will remove all newlines in `$0`, if that's what you're looking for. I suppose you could anchor it with `$` `gsub( /\n$/, "" );` [download] to be more like chomp. update: Oops! Looks like a is right. I based my assertion on the fact that `% cat foo \| awk '{ gsub(/\n$/,""); printf("%s", $0); }'` printed out `foo` as a single line. But take out the `gsub` and you're okay too. Oh well.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: chomp a newline in awk by a (Friar) on Jan 18, 2001 at 10:01 UTC
Doesn't awk (nawk) automatically chomp? 'least-wise, all my scripts (whoops - old scripts, really ;-) never worry about it: print adds \n back automatically. a	[reply]