The AWK Programming Language

Weinberger, Peter J.,Kernighan, Brian W.,Aho, Alfred V.

ISBN 10: 020107981X / ISBN 13: 9780201079814

Published by Pearson, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The AWK Programming Language

Publisher: Pearson

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Acceptable

About this title

Synopsis:

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 funcitons. This new version is available for both UNIX and MS-DOS.

About the Author:

Brian W. Kernighan works in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He is Consulting Editor for Addison-Wesley's Professional Computing Series and the author, with Dennis Ritchie, of The C Programming Language.

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