Getting syntax error when adding a function in awk

Question

#!/bin/gawk
function convertToCamelCase(text)
{
        split(text, words, " "); for (i=1; i<=length(words); i++) { res = res toupper(substr(words[i],1,1))tolower(substr(words[i],2))" ";
        return res;
}
function convertToThreeDigitDecimal(num)
{
        return sprintf("%7.3f",(num/1000000));
}
BEGIN {
....

I am trying to add a function in awk, it is giving me syntax error.

bash-3.2$ ./execute_all_stats.sh.bak file.csv
awk: get_mkt_stats.awk.bak:7: function convertToThreeDigitDecimal(num)
awk: get_mkt_stats.awk.bak:7: ^ syntax error
awk: get_mkt_stats.awk.bak:11: BEGIN {
awk: get_mkt_stats.awk.bak:11: ^ syntax error

The awk version is:

bash-3.2$ awk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.5

I am calling the awk like the following:

gawk -F',' -f script.awk ${file}

Dharman · Accepted Answer · 2024-02-02 20:06:14Z

2

you're missing a closing '}' on your for loop.

function convertToCamelCase(text)
{
    split(text, words, " ");
    for (i=1; i<=length(words); i++) { 
        res = res toupper(substr(words[i],1,1)) tolower(substr(words[i],2))" "
     }
 return res;
}

I've also added a space in front of tolower, just to make that function explicit.

edited Feb 2, 2024 at 20:06

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answered Dec 20, 2011 at 20:52

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