04-21-2013
Don Cragun, that may be a good way to test our programs by giving standard input (without specifying any file name). I had run awk programs by giving stnd input.
Now, what I want to say is:
As many told that why I see a link between 'read' and 'continue/break', I also wondered why they wrote so. Because my 1st post reflects the connection. Based on the user input read by the read statement, either 'continue' is executed or 'break' is executed. See my codes, if user inputs 'y' , 'continue' is executed orelse 'break'. I hope this should show the connection.
Now , coming to the other point :--" what is the use of 'continue/break' if awk doesn't understand 'read' statement". You all are right to say that 'continue/break' is used in awk without user interference or without user input. The reason I told becz I have used programs which execute 'continue or break' based on the input as the example I gave you. so, I thought that if user input is not to be used, then the code doesn't need continue or break. If possible, may I expect anyone to give a small algorithm or example to show how without user input, 'continue/break' makes sense.
Alister thanks to say a way of reading stnd input. I will check how it works.
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break(1) User Commands break(1)
NAME
break, continue - shell built-in functions to escape from or advance within a controlling while, for, foreach, or until loop
SYNOPSIS
sh
break [n]
continue [n]
csh
break
continue
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*break [n]
*continue [n]
DESCRIPTION
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The break utility exits from the enclosing for or while loop, if any. If n is specified, break n levels.
The continue utility resumes the next iteration of the enclosing for or while loop. If n is specified, resume at the n-th enclosing loop.
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The break utility resumes execution after the end of the nearest enclosing foreach or while loop. The remaining commands on the current
line are executed. This allows multilevel breaks to be written as a list of break commands, all on one line.
The continue utility continues execution of the next iteration of the nearest enclosing while or foreach loop.
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greater than the number of enclosing loops, the outermost enclosing loop shall be exited.
The continue utility resumes the next iteration of the enclosed for, while, until, or select loop. If n is specified then resume at the n-
th enclosed loop. If n is greater than the number of enclosing loops, the outermost enclosing loop shall be used.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words that follow a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign, and also that word splitting and file name genera-
tion are not performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
csh(1), exit(1), ksh(1), sh( 1), attributes(5)
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