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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>
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Subject: Re: bug in awk implementation?
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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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