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Re: RS='.^' apparently ignores the RS setting
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arnold |
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Re: RS='.^' apparently ignores the RS setting |
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Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:51:34 -0600 |
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arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> The matched character for the record separator is the newline before
> the subsequent begininng of the line that follows it.
>
> This is likely a bug. I need to think about how to deal with it.
> It's a truly weird corner case.
Mawk indeed treats ".^" as an invalid regexp, reading in the whole
file as a single record.
I think this is a bug in the dfa and regexp libraries that gawk uses,
and have sent a report to the gnulib list asking them to explore it
further, or to explain to me what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks,
Arnold
- RS='.^' apparently ignores the RS setting, Ed Morton, 2021/07/12
- Re: RS='.^' apparently ignores the RS setting, arnold, 2021/07/13
- Re: RS='.^' apparently ignores the RS setting, Ed Morton, 2021/07/13
- Re: RS='.^' apparently ignores the RS setting, arnold, 2021/07/13
- Re: RS='.^' apparently ignores the RS setting,
arnold <=
- Re: RS='.^' apparently ignores the RS setting, arnold, 2021/07/19
- Re: RS='.^' apparently ignores the RS setting, Ed Morton, 2021/07/19
- Re: RS='.^' apparently ignores the RS setting, arnold, 2021/07/20
- Re: RS='.^' apparently ignores the RS setting, Ed Morton, 2021/07/20