This is really cool! It's rare to see new implementations of awk these days. Bonus points for running it through the nawk test suite. In my opinion /usr/bin/

This is really cool! It's rare to see new implementations of awk these days. Bonus points for running it through the nawk test suite. In my opinion /usr/bin/awk is a thing of beauty. Certainly it's the most usable out of the trifecta of scripting languages that are mandated by POSIX. (There's /bin/sh, where merely using variables can quickly turn into a quoting nightmare. But the true nightmare material is /usr/bin/sed, which has actually been shown [1] to be a Turing complete language!) [1] http://www.catonmat.net/ftp/sed/turing.txt http://www.catonmat.net/ftp/sed/turing.txt