AWK Workshop / Discussion - April 11 - 23, 2026

• what: an informal exploration of plain AWK, aka "new AWK"
• where: SDF.org - both pcom ("awk" room) and irc.sdf.org ("#awk")
• when: Saturdays, 10-11am MDT ; Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6-7pm MDT

Though primarilly for SDF members*, there will be parallel discussions on IRC.

* new, pre-validated members can also participate

• Day 1: basic intro, pattern-action, BEGIN / END blocks, Unix OS interaction
• Day 2: regular & relational expressions, flow-control statments
• Day 3: AWK builtins & defaults, basic IO, printf() / sprintf()
• Day 4: data & variables, coercion, strings & maths
• Day 5: getline() & user-defined functions
• Day 6: all about arrays