Gawk/General-Functions
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10.2 General Programming
This section presents a number of functions that are of general programming use.
• Strtonum Function | A replacement for the built-in
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• Assert Function | A function for assertions in awk
programs. | |
• Round Function | A function for rounding if sprintf()
does not do it correctly. | |
• Cliff Random Function | The Cliff Random Number Generator. | |
• Ordinal Functions | Functions for using characters as numbers and
vice versa. | |
• Join Function | A function to join an array into a string. | |
• Getlocaltime Function | A function to get formatted times. | |
• Readfile Function | A function to read an entire file at once. | |
• Shell Quoting | A function to quote strings for the shell. |