Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:14:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bug in awk implementation? Message-ID: <200207151614.g6FGE7h3083649@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207150853570.27685-100000@smtp.gnf.org> References: <20020715173747.A11802@alpha.develop.ferrari.net> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207150853570.27685-100000@smtp.gnf.org>
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<<On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:06:36 -0700 (PDT), Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> said: > Ah, okay, there is a distinct lack of documentation to that fact. I have > figured out that I can just set RS="" and that does the same thing. I > suppose it would be helpful to have an awk book around. =) The Standard is clear: # The first character of the string value of RS shall be the input # record separator; a <newline> by default. If RS contains more than # one character, the results are unspecified. If RS is null, then # records are separated by sequences consisting of a <newline> plus # one or more blank lines, leading or trailing blank lines shall not # result in empty records at the beginning or end of the input, and a # <newline> shall always be a field separator, no matter what the # value of FS is. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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