Re: search for charater "="

On Monday 5 May 2008 15:25, Ed Morton wrote:

> awk 'BEGIN{split("5 8 10",t);for(i in t)skip[t[i]]} !(NR in skip)' file

So why not do just

awk 'BEGIN{skip[5];skip[8];skip[10]} !(NR in skip)' file

and avoid the extra array?

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