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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting BEGIN and END format in awk Post 302883245 by Yoda on Sunday 12th of January 2014 01:57:29 PM
Old 01-12-2014
Note that a BEGIN block is executed once only before the first input record is read.

So this block is not called for each input file if there are several input files for your awk program.

You could do something like:
Code:
FNR == 1 {
             counter = 0
}

to reset your counter for each input file.
 

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Perl::Critic::Policy::ControlStructures::ProhibitLabelsWUserpContriPerl::Critic::Policy::ControlStructures::ProhibitLabelsWithSpecialBlockNames(3)

NAME

       Perl::Critic::Policy::ControlStructures::ProhibitLabelsWithSpecialBlockNames - Don't use labels that are the same as the special block
       names.

AFFILIATION

       This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

DESCRIPTION

       When using one of the special Perl blocks "BEGIN", "END", "CHECK", "INIT", and "UNITCHECK", it is easy to mistakenly add a colon to the end
       of the block name.  E.g.:

	   # a BEGIN block that gets executed at compile time.
	   BEGIN { <...code...> }

	   # an ordinary labeled block that gets executed at run time.
	   BEGIN: { <...code...> }

       The labels "BEGIN:", "END:", etc. are probably errors.  This policy prohibits the special Perl block names from being used as labels.

CONFIGURATION

       This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.

SEE ALSO

       The Perl Buzz article on this issue at <http://perlbuzz.com/2008/05/colons-invalidate-your-begin-and-end-blocks.html>.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

       Randy Lauen for identifying the problem.

AUTHOR

       Mike O'Regan

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2008-2011 Mike O'Regan.  All rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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