Re: failure in producing a single linefeed-character

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi. Apologies for the delayed reply. (Please in the future
send mails as plain text AND html, and not just html, thanks.)

This would seem to be a Windows issue; here is what I get
on Linux:

$ gawk "BEGIN {printf \"%c\", 10}" | od -x
0000000 000a
0000001

You may have better luck if you play with the BINMODE
variable; see the gawk doc for the details.

Thanks,

Arnold

> To: address@hidden
> Subject: failure in producing a single linefeed-character
> From: Christoph Heidermanns 
> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:40:43 +0100
> 
> Hello gawk bug team,
> 
> I think a found a bug in gawk 3.1.6:
> 
> The following call is supposed to procude
> the single character file "test.txt" consisting only of the character
> 0A (LF)
> 
> gawk "BEGIN {printf \"%c\", 10}" > test.txt
> 
> This is not the case.
> 
> Instead of the expected result it procudes
> a two-character file consisting of the characters 0D (CR) and 0A (LF).
> 
> I'm using gawk unter W2k; the current
> version 3.1.6 was downloaded from 
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Christoph Heidermanns 
> Systemverantwortlicher SLX
> Software Developer