Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:06:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> To: Robert Drehmel <robert@ferrari-electronic.de> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bug in awk implementation? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207150853570.27685-100000@smtp.gnf.org> In-Reply-To: <20020715173747.A11802@alpha.develop.ferrari.net>
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Robert Drehmel wrote: > > So, this seems to be a bug in the one-true-awk implementation. Any ideas > > on how to fix this? > > 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. Ah, okay, there is a distinct lack of documentation to that fact. I have figured out that I can just set RS="" and that does the same thing. I suppose it would be helpful to have an awk book around. =) -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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