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

[Aharon Robbins]

Thanks for the bug report. I have checked in John's fixes to
the gawk-4.0-stable branch which will appear soon on Savannah.

Thanks,

Arnold

> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:42:07 +0200
> From: Kacper Kornet <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [bug-gawk] Change in behavior of gsub inside loop
>
> 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
>
> Best regards,
> -- 
>   Kacper