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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 16:46:15 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> In awk talk what is this called
> /^Address/
> /^ Hits/

In awk general: patterns. In this case, regular expressions.
They can prepend a block of instructions or appear in sub()
and gsub() functions as arguments.



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Polytropon
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