Re: [bug-gawk] -i infile unexpected behavior

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 05:00:26PM -0400, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 01:30:43AM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> > I'm OK with this change if you wish to take the trouble to make it.
> > I don't mind the extra variable.
> > 
> > If you decide to do this, please send me a patch + ChangeLog entry to
> > review and I'll commit and merge.
> 
> I think the attached patch should do the trick.  It was a bit more complicated
> than expected.

Oops, I now see that standard practice in other awk libraries is for hidden
global variables to be lower-case and start with a single "_".  So perhaps
"__INPLACE_FILENAME" should be replaced with "_inplace_filename".  A modified
version is attached.

Regards,
Andy

inplace2.patch
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