Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 20:47:44 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> To: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: awk bug? in 2.2 BETA? Message-ID: <199703062047.UAA18855@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Mar 1997 10:23:34 PST." <Pine.OSF.3.95.970306101744.11587E-100000@becker1.u.washington.edu>
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> Hello;
>
> could an awk literate person comment on this ? The behavior on the
> follwing line of code appears to be awk version related. a linux guy
> running 3.0 patch 0 gets a correct answer, my freebsd 2.2 BETA awk 2.15p5
> does not.
>
> mira: {60} cat fd1.dat | awk 'BEGIN { FS = " " }; END { printf "rf= %g; cf
> = %g\n;", NR, NF }'
>
> rf= 9801; cf = 0;
>
> cf should be 3!
Not really. NF is the number of fields on the current line. There's no
current line in END.
Try:
awk -F' ' '{nf=NF;} END{ print "rf= " NR ",cf= " nf; }'
if that's really what you want. I'd consider the Linux 3.0pl0 as
having a bug if it thinks NR should be set in END ;|
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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