[Vimoutliner] Parsing outlines with awk?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

Has anyone used awk to parse outlines? How did it work for you? I just learned 
awk, and implemented stacks in awk (I don't think awk has stacks natively, 
but it's trivial to make). Theoretically, armed with stacks one could parse 
and translate outlines, although the lack of complex variables (C structures, 
Ruby classes, etc) makes it a little harder.

By the way, does anyone know if awk has local variables, and if so, how does 
one distinquish them from global variables?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
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