Re: [bug-gawk] Change in behavior of getline

[John Haque]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 08:37:54AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> This is similar to the problem of (g)sub not preserving space
> when there were no substitutions.
> 
> $ ./gawk --version | head -n 1
> GNU Awk 3.1.8
> $ echo ' aaa bbb' | ./gawk 'END { getline $2; print}'
>  aaa bbb
> 
> $ ./gawk --version | head -n 1
> GNU Awk 4.0.0
> $ echo ' aaa bbb' | ./gawk 'END { getline $2; print}'
> aaa bbb

The attached patch fixes the problem. 

Thanks.

John

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