New Eyes on an awk script

[Shawn Tayler]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:27:19 -0500 David Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com>
exclaimed:

> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:15:37 -0800, Shawn Tayler
> <stayler at xmtservices.net> wrote:
> > Would one of you more knowledgable type show me the stupid mistake I am
> > making with the following awk script?  I have been banging my head
> > against the "syntax error" wall for a while now.
> 
> Been a while since I used awk (I normally use Perl now), however, I would
> try:
> 
> if ($NF == 9) { ... }
> This interprets the variable NF and takes its value rather than
> testing to see if NF is equal to 9.

Thanks David,

This change still throws the syntax error and points to the 'if' on each
line.

Shawn 

> > 
> > BEGIN { FS = "," }
> > ++x
> > if ( NF == 9 )  { print
> > x","$1","$2","$3","$4","$5","$6","$7","$8","$9",NA" } if ( NF == 10 )
> > && ( $9 == $10 ) { print
> > x","$1","$2","$3","$4","$5","$6","$7","$8","$9",NA" } if ( NF == 10 )
> > && ($9 != $10 ) { print
> > x","$1","$2","$3","$4","$5","$6","$7","$8","$9","$10 } if ( NF == 8 ) {
> > print x","$1","$2","$3","$4","$5","$6","$7","$8", , " }
> > 
> > I keep getting a syntax error on the if statement.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel
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