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FPAT/printing fields bug
From: |
Ed Morton |
Subject: |
FPAT/printing fields bug |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:52:22 -0500 |
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Looks like there's an FPAT bug in gawk 5.0.1:
$ echo ',b' | gawk -v FPAT='[^,]*' '{print $2}'
b
$ echo ',b' | gawk -v FPAT='[^,]*' '{print $1, $2}'
$
It can be worked around in the same way as a previous bug
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2017-04/msg00000.html):
$ echo ',b' | gawk -v FPAT='[^,]*' '{oFPAT=FPAT; FPAT=""; FPAT=oFPAT;
print $1, $2}'
b
$
Regards,
Ed.
- FPAT/printing fields bug,
Ed Morton <=