hello awk-programmers!

I am having some problem with a awk script I wrote. It is working fine with gawk (version 3.1.2) but may not work with awk on HP-UX.

relevant part of the script is:

conddescription["something"]=1;
delete conddescription;

But there is always an error message :

" syntax error The source line is 6.
The error context is
/HELLO/ { delete >>> desc; <<<
awk: The statement cannot be correctly parsed.
The source line is 6."

Can any one give me a hint why this should work in gawk but not in awk?

thanks for any idea.

okay it works in awk with following statement.

for (i in conddesciption) delete conddescription[i]; works fine.


delete conddescription; is an extension in gawk that is not available in other awk derivatives.