chomp a newline in awk

[Anonymous Monk]

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[tilly]

Run a2p to convert to a less awk-ward language, then do it in Perl with chomp...

[eg]

Ewww. awk.

gsub( "\n", "" );

will remove all newlines in $0, if that's what you're looking for. I suppose you could anchor it with $

gsub( /\n$/, "" );

to be more like chomp.

update: Oops! Looks like a is right. I based my assertion on the fact that

% cat foo | awk '{ gsub(/\n$/,""); printf("%s", $0); }'

printed out foo as a single line. But take out the gsub and you're okay too. Oh well.

[a]

Doesn't awk (nawk) automatically chomp? 'least-wise, all my scripts (whoops - old scripts, really ;-) never worry about it: print adds \n back automatically.

a