Re: [bug-gawk] FIELDWIDTHS can miscount the number of fields

[arnold]

Nethox <address@hidden> wrote:

> 1) Given FIELDWIDTHS = "2 3 4 *" and input data "aabbbcccc", NF == 3?

Should be.

> 2) Currently, gawk avoids letters and 0 in FIELDWIDTHS . You will
> probably have to check that "*" is unique and at the end (or absent).

Indeed. My code does that.

Thanks,

Arnold