Re: [bug-gawk] Warning message issued with no source line number

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 08:34:01PM -0400, Peter J. Farley III wrote:
> Many thanks Andy.  My eyes just glazed on past that multi-line
> statement without seeing the missing continuation character.

It's hard to find with the naked eye. I did a binary search to find the
problem. Here's a simpler version:

bash-4.2$ cat /tmp/test.awk 
BEGIN {
      "a" 1
}
bash-4.2$ gawk --lint -f /tmp/test.awk 
gawk: warning: statement may have no effect

Interestingly, if the "1" is removed, there is no warning at all:

bash-4.2$ cat /tmp/test.awk 
BEGIN {
      "a"
}
bash-4.2$ gawk --lint -f /tmp/test.awk 
bash-4.2$ 

But still we need to find the bug...

Regards,
Andy