[Toybox] awk (was: strlower() bug)

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interesting docs, thanks!

i see you're already running the one-true-awk test suite, which was
the only suggestion i would have had, and you're running it against
"all the awks", which is even better than what i had in mind :-)

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 10:37 PM Ray Gardner <raygard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 1:38 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/8/24 16:27, Ray Gardner wrote:
> >> BTW I was a bit surprised that mentioning my awk for toybox got no reaction.
> >
> > Oh I'm interested, but somebody (probably you) mentioned they were looking into
> > it before, and I'll wait to see some code first. :)
> >
> > (The problem with asking to see code early is pending/git.c isn't useful and
> > that's as far as the original developer had time/energy for, and I haven't
> > personally opened that can of worms yet. The problem with waiting until it's
> > done is pending/bc.c was several times larger than I expected and I'm uncertain
> > if I even want to personally open that can of worms.)
> >
> > That said, if you're actively working on it and wanted to do a brief design
> > infodump here, consider it solicited. :)
>
> I've worked on it a lot. See
>
>     https://www.raygard.net/awkdoc/
>
>     https://github.com/raygard/wak/blob/main/toybox/awk.c
>
>     https://github.com/raygard/wak/blob/main/toybox_awk_test/awk.test
>
> Yes, it's larger than busybox awk. I believe it's also got fewer bugs
> and performs better.
>
> It works. Drop it in toys/pending or (if you're feeling rad) in
> toys/posix. Let me know if anything does not work.
>
> See the comments in https://github.com/raygard/wak/issues/7 -- it's in
> use by at least a couple people in its "standalone" version outside of
> toybox. Also see https://github.com/raygard/wak/issues/2 -- this guy
> did the Advent of Code in awk, and my awk works on it.
>
> For more fun, get
> https://github.com/patsie75/awk-mandelbrot/raw/master/mandelbrot.awk
>
> and run: toybox awk -v profile=2 -f mandelbrot.awk
>
> It may take a while but it will finish at frame 400. Try other profile
> values (1 through 8). busybox awk doesn't work at all. All other awks
> (gawk, Kernighan's awk, mawk, goawk) give similar output but no two
> awks make identical output.
>
> Regarding bc.c being several times larger than expected: bc is a
> programming language with functions and control structures and
> arbitrary precision math and interactive mode. Not sure it can be
> written much smaller. But my awk is smaller than toybox bc.c in
> (non-comment nonblank) LOC.
>
> Ray
>
> > P.S. Also, my old Austin house finally went on the market last weekend and we
>
> P.S. I hope the house thing is going OK for you.
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