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Awka

Awka is both a translator of AWK programs to ANSI C, and a separate library against which the C code is linked. The aims of Awka are to allow creation an executable that provides generally better performance than AWK interpretors, to allow easy inclusion of AWK logic in larger C applications, and use of external C functions within AWK scripts.

Tags	Software Development Code Generators Libraries
Licenses	GPL LGPL
Operating Systems	POSIX
Implementation	C Unix Shell

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0.7.5

12 Jul 2001 21:18

Release Notes: Networking features introduced in Gawk 3.1.0 are now supported by Awka (causing change of license to GPL), and several other new Gawk functions have been added. A new and much improved hashing method has been adopted for arrays, Regular Expressions will execute a little quicker, and where possible Awka will track the datatype of variables to optimise performance.

0.7.4

13 Jun 2001 10:05

Release Notes: Some problems with compiling on some platforms have been fixed, as have difficulties running the test suite. FIELDWIDTHS will no longer affect the split() function, and there's a speed boost for execution of simple regular expressions.

0.7.3

30 May 2001 15:44

Release Notes: Cleanups for a six-month backlog of bug reports, and addition of several missing features required by the Posix standard such as 'next' within functions and 'var=value' from the commandline.

0.7.0

30 Jan 2001 06:12

Release Notes: Awka supports calls to external C functions as if they were built-in to the language, so you are no longer restricted to the functions that AWK provides. The libawka API has been documented, and a walk-through guide prepared to help developers get started.