Re: [bug-gawk] Issues in readfile example in docs

[Arnold Robbins]

Hi.

This note (unexcusably) got buried in my inbox.  You are correct.
I have fixed the doc, and it will get pushed to the git repo shortly,
and will be included in the upcoming 4.2 release.

Thank you very much!

Arnold

> From: Jaromir Obr <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 07:09:11 +0000
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> Subject: [bug-gawk] Issues in readfile example in docs
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>
> Hi,
> see https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Readfile-Function
>
> 1) There is missing the left parenthesis in while (getline tmp < file) > 0),
> thus you get a syntax error
> 2) The function doesn't process well new lines. If you have a file with
> EOLN at the end of file, the EOLN is missing in contents. And if the file
> doesn't have the ending EOLN, there is missing the last but one EOLN in
> contents.
>
> This works for me:
>
>     contents = tmp RT
>     while ((getline tmp < file) > 0)
>         contents = contents tmp RT
>
>
> instead of the existing code:
>
>     contents = tmp
>     while ((getline tmp < file) > 0)
>         contents = contents RT tmp
>
>
> Regards
>
> Mira