[Chapter 11] 11.8 Group Listing of awk Functions and Commands

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11.8 Group Listing of awk Functions and Commands

The following table classifies awk functions and commands.

Arithmetic Functions	String Functions	Control Flow Statements	I/O Processing	Time Functions	Programming
`atan2`[3]	`gensub`[4]	`break`	`close`[3]	`strftime`[4]	`delete`[3]
`cos`[3]	`gsub`[3]	`continue`	`fflush`[5]	`systime`[4]	`function`[3]
`exp`	`index`	`do`/`while`[3]	`getline`[3]		`system`[3]
`int`	`length`	`exit`	`next`
`log`	`match`[3]	`for`	`nextfile`[5]
`rand`[3]	`split`	`if`	`print`
`sin`[3]	`sprintf`	`return`[3]	`printf`
`sqrt`	`sub`[3]	`while`
`srand`[3]	`substr`
	`tolower`[3]
	`toupper`[3]

[3] Available in nawk.
[4] Available in gawk.
[5] Available in Bell Labs awk and gawk.


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