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Re: Possible bug in gawk: local FS not used


From: Dave B
Subject: Re: Possible bug in gawk: local FS not used
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:32:38 +0200
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Aharon Robbins wrote:

> This is regular old-fashioned shadowning of a global variable by a local one.
> So, the behavior as such is "intended".

Well, I think his whole point was that the "local" value of FS (that
shadowing the global value) was not taken into account when splitting the line.

-- 
D.




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