Symbol Table Access (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)
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17.4.10 Symbol Table Access
Two sets of routines provide access to global variables, and one set allows you to create and release cached values.
| • Symbol table by name | Accessing variables by name. | |
| • Symbol table by cookie | Accessing variables by “cookie”. | |
| • Cached values | Creating and using cached values. |
