Re: [bug-gawk] Strange behavior in gawk

[Derrik Walker v2.0]

On 12/06/2014 10:29 PM, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> Another solution is to reassign $0.  If you change your script to say:
>
> /:/ {
>      FS=":"
>      $0 = $0
>      print "NF = " NF " - " $0
> }
>
> /\./ {
>      FS="."
>      $0 = $0
>      print "NF = " NF " - " $0
> }
>
> Then you will get the desired results:
>
> NF = 3 - 1:2:3
> NF = 3 - 4:5:6
> NF = 4 - .a.b.c
> NF = 4 - .e.f.g
>
> Regards,
> Andy

This looks promising and works great in my test script.  When I'm at 
work, I'll try it on the actual script I was working on.

Thanks!

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