Re: [bug-gawk] Change in behavior of gsub inside loop

[j . eh]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:42:07AM +0200, Kacper Kornet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have observed the following changed behavior between gawk-3.8.1 and
> gakw-4.0.0. While in the former 
> 
> echo -ne ' aaa' | gawk '{for (c = 1; c <= NF; c++) {gsub("foo", "bar", $c); 
> print}}'
> 
> prints:
> 
>  aaa
> 
> the gawk-4.0.0 does not preserve the leading spaces and prints:
> 
> aaa

Thanks for the report. This is indeed a bug. The attached patch
fixes the problem.

Thanks.

John

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