Re: traditional awk: lazy splitting of $0?

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Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> writes:

> Can I rely on the fact that splitting of $0 is done lazily?

I vaguely recall that traditional Awk worked that way, yes.  Sort of
lazily, anyway: it split all of $0 if you accessed any $i where i>0.

> works with Solaris 2.6 awk

If it works with an awk that old, that's probably good enough.


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