Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:45:09 +0100 From: Wolfgang Petzold <wolfgang@heldvonkosmos.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible bug in bc(1) Message-ID: <56C851C5.9040405@heldvonkosmos.de> In-Reply-To: <56C848FD.6040502@FreeBSD.org> References: <56C848FD.6040502@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi, actually, if you "ignore \<newline><whitespace> within numbers", your input reads 2*12*1, doesn't it? W. Am 20.02.2016 um 12:07 schrieb Ruslan Makhmatkhanov: > Hello, > > I'm getting strange result with something looking like valid data: > > [rm@smsh-zfs ~]> bc > 2*1\ > 2*1 > 24 > > I'd expect the output being like that: > 2*1\ > 2 > 2*1 > 2 > > What I see in bc(1) man-page regarding to backslash is: > "The sequence ‘\<newline><whitespace>’ is ignored within numbers." > > So looks like it doesn't actually ignored or I missing something? > > Thanks for clarification. >
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