On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 14:36:11 -0400, Paul wrote:
> There can also be line ending differences. The Gawk in
> WSL uses Linux line endings, and needs a two line Begin
> clause added to source scripts.

Could you share those two lines, please? I'm curious.

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On 3/19/2022 4:56 PM, Stan Brown wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 14:36:11 -0400, Paul wrote:
>> There can also be line ending differences. The Gawk in
>> WSL uses Linux line endings, and needs a two line Begin
>> clause added to source scripts.
>
> Could you share those two lines, please? I'm curious.

I don't think I have that recorded anywhere.
The script might well have got tossed.

A breadcrumb would be along these lines, but a few
more googles regarding issues with this may be required.

BEGIN {
RS='\r\n' # or alternately '\r?\n' for \n or \r\n , which may or may
# not be a good idea
ORS ='\r\n' # some encoded value for CRLF so the output would be Windows.
# Instead of what Linux coughs up with default /n usage.
# Maybe this would make a Linux Gawk, put Windows line endings.
}

If you download the Firefox source tarball, the Linux "file" command
finds one hundred variants of text files within the hundreds of
thousands of source files (at the time I did this scan, I was
shocked at what I'd discovered). Obviously, you would not be attempting
to add order to that madness with a Gawk script. Maybe "sed"
would be required, for really really bad files.

It's so bad in fact, I found a file, that if I changed the
line endings, the compiler would throw a nonsensical error
and no amount of work on my part could fix it. I had to
restore the original file and stop modifying it :-) Wheee!
I think I might even have resorted to HxD and a hunt for
invisible characters.

So when I say two lines, the two lines were lines that
solved *my* immediate problem. I was not curing cancer
at the time. I just wanted the damn script to finish
what I was doing. I was running a large text file
through GNUWin32 Gawk 3, which crashed (my first Gawk
crash), and to get my text through Gawk 4 on WSL, I
needed to add a clause similar to the above.

The above then, is to give you something to use in a
search in the Gawk PDF manual. Or on Stackexchange.
The machine I'm on right now, doesn't have all this
stuff sitting on it, so I can't do any quick
comparisons.

Paul

On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:44:53 -0400, Paul wrote:
> On 3/19/2022 4:56 PM, Stan Brown wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 14:36:11 -0400, Paul wrote:
> >> There can also be line ending differences. The Gawk in
> >> WSL uses Linux line endings, and needs a two line Begin
> >> clause added to source scripts.
> >
> > Could you share those two lines, please? I'm curious.
>
> I don't think I have that recorded anywhere.
> The script might well have got tossed.
>
> A breadcrumb would be along these lines, but a few
> more googles regarding issues with this may be required.
>
> BEGIN {
> RS='\r\n' # or alternately '\r?\n' for \n or \r\n , which may or may
> # not be a good idea
> ORS ='\r\n' # some encoded value for CRLF so the output would be Windows.
> # Instead of what Linux coughs up with default /n usage.
> # Maybe this would make a Linux Gawk, put Windows line endings.
>

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity. Now that I see it, I can
understand the need to set the output separator for Windows format
when running in Linux but producing files to be used in Windows; but
it seems strange that any current tool would not be prepared to
handle inputs in any end-of-line format.

--
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...

On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:17:21 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:

> Actually looks like sublime text can do justification really well.
> https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Justify

How do you add it to Notepad++?

Jerry <Jerry@JerryThinks.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:17:21 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
>
>> Actually looks like sublime text can do justification really well.
>> https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Justify
>
> How do you add it to Notepad++?

You don't. Use Sublime Text instead.