Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:20:40 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: awk bug? in 2.2 BETA? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970307091829.2758B-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970306101744.11587E-100000@becker1.u.washington.edu>
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On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, John Utz wrote:
> 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!
I'm not sure but wouldn't cf report the number of colums in the END
record, i.e. 0.
Try the code below.
> mira: {60} cat fd1.dat | \
awk 'BEGIN { FS = " " }; { if ( cf > c ){ c = cf }}; END { printf "rf= %g; cf
= %g\n;", NR, NF }'
Danny
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