Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, we are using multidimensional arrays with the calendar heatmap. Specifically, there exists code like: count[weekday][mon] and ...

awk does a lot of common work for you when you use it to process text files. It reads files a record at a time. Normally, a record is a single line. Then it splits the line on fields using whitespace, ...

"Awk provides a limited number of data structures. Besides scalar and string variables, an array data structure is built into the language. While officially called \"arrays\", this structure is ...

In an earlier article ("GNU Awk 4.0: Teaching an Old Bird Some New Tricks", published in the September 2011 issue of Linux Journal), I gave a brief history of awk and gawk and provided a high-level ...

Last month, I introduced you to awk, the 'pattern processor'. That laid the foundation, and merely scratched the surface of awk's power. This month, we're going to dive back into flow control, as ...

I have a file containing a list of entries in the format:<br><br><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">ServerName Date Stuff1 Stuff2 Etc </pre> <br><br>I want to be able ...

The awk programming language often gets overlooked for Perl, which is a more capable language. Out in the real world, however awk is found even more ubiquitously than Perl. It also has a smaller ...