gawk: Input Exercises

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1 4.15 Exercises
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1   1. Using the 'FIELDWIDTHS' variable (⇒Constant Size), write a
1      program to read election data, where each record represents one
1      voter's votes.  Come up with a way to define which columns are
1      associated with each ballot item, and print the total votes,
1      including abstentions, for each item.
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1   2. ⇒Plain Getline, presented a program to remove C-style
1      comments ('/* ... */') from the input.  That program does not work
1      if one comment ends on one line and another one starts later on the
1      same line.  That can be fixed by making one simple change.  What is
1      it?
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