gawk: Statements
7.4 Control Statements in Actions
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"Control statements", such as 'if', 'while', and so on, control the flow
of execution in 'awk' programs. Most of 'awk''s control statements are
patterned after similar statements in C.
All the control statements start with special keywords, such as 'if'
and 'while', to distinguish them from simple expressions. Many control
statements contain other statements. For example, the 'if' statement
contains another statement that may or may not be executed. The
contained statement is called the "body". To include more than one
statement in the body, group them into a single "compound statement"
with braces, separating them with newlines or semicolons.
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