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6 revtwoway - Reverse strings sample two-way processor extension
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9 @load "revtwoway"
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11 BEGIN {
12 cmd = "/magic/mirror"
13 print "hello, world" |& cmd
14 cmd |& getline result
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20 The revtwoway extension adds a simple two-way processor that reverses
21 the characters in each line sent to it for reading back by the AWK pro‐
22 gram. It's main purpose is to show how to write a two-way extension,
23 although it may also be mildly amusing.
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26 GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3am), fnmatch(3am),
27 fork(3am), inplace(3am), ordchr(3am), readdir(3am), readfile(3am),
28 revoutput(3am), rwarray(3am), time(3am).
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31 Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.
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