In a previous discussion about awk, the user comex made a wish that I strongly desire as well:
"I wish Awk had capture groups. It would fit in so well with typical Awk one-liners to be able to say:
awk '/foo=([0-9]+)/ { print $1 }'
although I suppose the syntax would have to be different since $1 has a meaning already."
I use Awk all the time, and the new additions in the article are pretty nice; but for typical uses of Awk, the feature comex wants would make a tremendous difference in usability.
"I wish Awk had capture groups. It would fit in so well with typical Awk one-liners to be able to say:
although I suppose the syntax would have to be different since $1 has a meaning already."I use Awk all the time, and the new additions in the article are pretty nice; but for typical uses of Awk, the feature comex wants would make a tremendous difference in usability.