Question

awk has some built-in functions which are used for arithmetic and string operations.

(a) True

(b) False

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Answer 1

The correct option is (a) True

To elaborate: awk also has several built-in functions which are used for performing arithmetic as well as string operations. The arguments to these functions are passed in C style.