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Re: might be a bug in gawk


From: Micah Cowan
Subject: Re: might be a bug in gawk
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:28:02 -0700
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Dave B <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>
>>> There is no formatting directive that reqires an argument.  %28b is
>>> unknown and %29% is treated the same as %%. 
>> Where is that documented?
> 
> Nowhere.  Both are undefined.

To be pedantic, %29% is not undefined, AFAICT: % is an ordinary
conversion specifier, and I don't see anything anywhere that says it
can't take a field width (but neither would I particularly expect
real-world implementations to behave appropriately with them).

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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