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Re: Possible bug in gawk: local FS not used


From: Jean-Philippe Guérard
Subject: Re: Possible bug in gawk: local FS not used
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 22:28:43 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

>> If I understand well, when parsing the input line, the global FS 
>> variable is always used, even if a local FS exists.
>> 
>> Could you confirm if this is a bug or intended?
>
> Please see the section "Advanced Notes: Changing FS Does Not Affect the
> Fields" in the GNU awk user's guide.

I've already read that section, but it does not seem to apply here:
I'm setting the value of FS then calling getline.

Thanks.

Regards.

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Jean-Philippe Guérard
http://tigreraye.org




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