Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 21:47:09 +0200 From: Robert Drehmel <robert@ferrari-electronic.de> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bug in awk implementation? Message-ID: <20020715214709.A12624@alpha.develop.ferrari.net> In-Reply-To: <1026759240.7028.1.camel@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207150812080.27685-100000@smtp.gnf.org> <20020715173747.A11802@alpha.develop.ferrari.net> <1026759240.7028.1.camel@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu>
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Hello Brandon,
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:53:59PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 11:37, Robert Drehmel wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hm, I thought that was a gawk extension.
From the GNU AWK 3.0.6 source:
"""
else if (RS->stlen > 1) {
static int warned = FALSE;
RS_regexp = make_regexp(RS->stptr, RS->stlen, IGNORECASE, TRUE);
if (do_lint && ! warned) {
warning("multicharacter value of `RS' is not portable");
warned = TRUE;
}
}
"""
You are right. However, I still consider it a bug. :-)
ciao,
-robert
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