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Re: [bug-gawk] What is wrong with getline from both stdin and a file fro


From: Andrew J. Schorr
Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] What is wrong with getline from both stdin and a file from ARGV?
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:21:28 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:22:56PM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> I see what I was wrong. `getline` will read from ARGV[1] once it has
> been set, even later on ARGV is deleted.
> 
> $ printf '%s\n' {1..3} | mawk.sh -e 'BEGIN { getline; print; getline <
> ARGV[2]; print; delete ARGV; getline; print }' <(printf '%s\n' {a..c})
> <(printf '%s\n' {A..C})
> printf '%s\n' {A..C}
> printf '%s\n' {a..c}
> a
> A
> b

Do you not see that the "printf '%s\n' {1..3}" on stdin is irrelevant?
It is just confusing you; awk ignores it.

Regards,
Andy



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