The AWK Programming Language (Softcover)

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GOOD: This book is in near-new condition, but must be ranked as GOOD since a previous owner's name is written on the title page.

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Also from the back cover: "Originally developed by Alfred Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger in 1977, AWK is a pattern-matching language for writing short programs to perform common data-manipulation tasks. In 1985, a new version of the language was developed, incorporating additional features such as multiple input files, dynamic regular expressions, and user-defined functions. This new version is available for both UNIX and MS-DOS. ...

"The examples illustrate the book's three themes: showing how to use AWK well, demonstrating AWK's versatility, and explaining how common computing operations are done."

Chapters

1. An AWK Tutorial
2. The AWK Language
3. Data Processing
4. Reports and Databases
5. Processing Words
6. Little Languages
7. Experiments with Algorithms
8. Epilog

Appendices

1. AWK Summary
2. Answers to Selected Exercies

The book includes an Index.