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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:06:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>
To:        Robert Drehmel <robert@ferrari-electronic.de>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bug in awk implementation?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207150853570.27685-100000@smtp.gnf.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020715173747.A11802@alpha.develop.ferrari.net>

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On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Robert Drehmel wrote:

> > So, this seems to be a bug in the one-true-awk implementation. Any ideas 
> > on how to fix this?
> 
> To me, this seems like a bug in 'gawk'.  The AWK language uses
> only the first character in RS as the record separator, to my
> knowledge.

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. =)

-gordon


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