On Nov 27, 6:24*pm, Loki Harfagr <l...@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID>
wrote:
> Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:12:45 +1100, Grant did cat*:
>
> > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:33:13 +0000, Lorenz <loren...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >>Loki Harfagr wrote:
> >>>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:03:22 +0000, Lorenz did cat*: [...]
> >>> Well yes indeed but it may show you may have missed the
> >>>"let's play 'flog' for a change ;-)" part?
>
> >>that may be (due to lack in knowledge about english proverbs)
>
> > echo flog |rev
>
> > Loki's from .fr
>
> yup, and that'd make me a frog, maybe the reason why
> flog's a natural ;-)
> Or maybe Lorenz was thinking to that amelican plovelb?
> "Can't tell by looking at a flog how high he will jump."
>
>
>
> >>Lorenz (allready thinking about a getline version 8-)
>
> Noooo, get back!-)
>
>
>
> > The boggle minds...
>
> as you requested boggle here's a last and boggling flog,
> I promise I won't push any other after that one ;-)
> -----------
> awk -v col=3 -v row=5 '
> {
> * * * * row--
> * * * * while(++i){
> * * * * * * * * a[++n]=$(i)
> * * * * * * * * if($(i)~/[\n]/){
> * * * * * * * * * * * * row--
> * * * * * * * * }
> * * * * * * * * if(!row){
> * * * * * * * * * * * * while(++i){
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * a[++n]=$(i)
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * if($(i)~/[ \t]/){
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * col--
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * if(!col){
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * for(p=n-1;p;p--){
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * printf("%s", a[n-p])
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * }
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * printf("%s","\n")
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * exit
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * }
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * n=0
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * delete(a)
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * }
> * * * * * * * * * * * * }
> * * * * * * * * }
> * * * * }}
>
> ' RS= FS= yerfile
> -----------

awk -v LINE=2 -v COLUMN=5 'NR==LINE {print substr($0, COLUMN, 1)}'