RosettaCodeData/Task/Variables/AWK/variables-3.awk

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Awk

function foo(s, k) {
# s is an argument passed from caller
# k is a dummy not passed by caller, but because it is
# in the argument list, it will have a scope local to the function
k = length(s)
print "'" s "' contains", k, "characters"
}
BEGIN {
k = 42
s = "Test"
foo("Demo")
print "k is still", k
foo(s,k)
print "k still is", k
}