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tests/test.awk

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+#!/usr/bin/awk -f
+
+# test.awk: Compare actual.txt with expected.txt, allowing [TIME] as a timestamp placeholder
+
+BEGIN {
+    passed = 1
+    line = 0
+
+    # Load expected lines from second file (expected.txt)
+    while ((getline expectedLine < ARGV[2]) > 0) {
+        line++
+        expected[line] = expectedLine
+    }
+
+    delete ARGV[2]  # remove expected.txt so AWK processes only actual.txt
+}
+
+{
+    line++
+    actual = $0
+    expectedLine = expected[line]
+
+    # Match timestamp in the form [YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS]
+    if (match(actual, /\[([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}T[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2})Z\] (.*)/)) {
+        ts_len = RLENGTH
+        msg = substr(actual, ts_len + 1)
+    } else {
+        printf("FAIL: Line %d: Invalid or missing timestamp: %s\n", line, actual)
+        passed = 0
+        next
+    }
+
+    # If expected line begins with [TIME], strip it
+    if (index(expectedLine, "[TIME] ") == 1) {
+        expectedLine = substr(expectedLine, 8)
+    }
+
+    if (msg != expectedLine) {
+        printf("FAIL: Line %d:\n  expected: %s\n  actual:   %s\n", line, expectedLine, msg)
+        passed = 0
+    }
+}
+
+END {
+    if (passed) {
+        print "PASS: all lines matched with valid timestamps"
+        exit 0
+    } else {
+        print "FAIL: differences found"
+        exit 1
+    }
+}