Gawk/Truth-Values-and-Conditions

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6.3 Truth Values and Conditions

In certain contexts, expression values also serve as “truth values”; i.e., they determine what should happen next as the program runs. This section describes how awk defines “true” and “false” and how values are compared.

Truth Values    What is “true” and what is “false”.
Typing and Comparison    How variables acquire types and how this

affects comparison of numbers and strings with ‘<’, etc.

Boolean Ops    Combining comparison expressions using boolean

operators ‘||’ (“or”), ‘&&’ (“and”) and ‘!’ (“not”).

Conditional Exp    Conditional expressions select between two

subexpressions under control of a third subexpression.