WHAT'S NEW?

Mar 01: Michael Sanders demos an X-windows GUI for AWK.

Mar 01: Awk100#24: A. Lahm and E. de Rinaldis' patent search, in AWK

Feb 28: Tim Menzies asks this community to write an AWK cookbook.

Feb 28: Arnold Robbins announces a new debugger for GAWK.

Feb 28: Awk100#23: Premysl Janouch offers a IRC bot, In AWK

Feb 28: Updated: the AWK FAQ

Feb 28: Tim Menzies offers a tiny content management system, in Awk.

Jan 31: Comment system added to awk.info. For example, see discussion bottom of ?keys2awk

Jan 31: Martin Cohen shows that Gawk can handle massively long strings (300 million characters).

Jan 31: The AWK FAQ is being updated. For comments/ corrections/ extensions, please mail tim@menzies.us

Jan 31: Martin Cohen finds Awk on the Android platform.

Jan 31: Aleksey Cheusov released a new version of runawk.

Jan 31: Hirofumi Saito contributes a candidate Awk mascot.

Jan 31: Michael Sanders shows how to quickly build an AWK GUI for windows.

Jan 31: Hyung-Hwan Chung offers QSE, an embeddable Awk Interpreter.

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categories: Mawk,Libmawk,Aug,2009,TiborP

How to Call Awk from "C" with Libmawk

Libmawk is a fork of mawk 1.3.3 restructured for embedding. This means the user gets libmawk.h and libmawk.so and can embed awk scripting language in any application written in C.

the project can be downloaded here.

Features

Libmawk has the following main features:

• load and run multiple awk scripts independently, in parallel
• scripts do not read stdin but a memory buffer the embedding process can fill from time to time
• running scripts in (mostly) non-blocking manner - that is, the script will not block if the process can not provide new input
• all these without threads or fork()
• call awk functions from C, using vararg for smooth integration
• call C functions from awk scripts
• resolve existing awk variables from C - read or write variables

License

Since mawk is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 and libmawk is a fork of mawk, libmawk is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 too.

Author

Tibor Palinkas