Support for network?

[s3rj1k]

Is there a plan to add networking support in-spirit of this https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/TCP_002fIP-Networking.html ?

[benhoyt]

No, sorry, I don't really want to go down that route (to me it doesn't seem in the unix-y spirit of "do one thing well"). However, you're welcome to use system() and pipes with network-based tools like curl, or if you're using GoAWK as a Go library, you could add your own custom Go functions which do network operations: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/benhoyt/goawk@v1.26.0/interp#Config.Funcs

[s3rj1k]

@benhoyt I actually wanted to ask next about the ability to add some kind of modules.

So if I understand correctly, I can extend GoAWK to support JSON with Config.Funcs? (when using as lib)

Also thank you for the great project.

[benhoyt]

You could make some JSON parsing and serialisation functions with Config.Funcs, yes. However, you couldn't add first-class JSON support that would convert input lines to fields -- that's discussed as a separate feature in #152.