Re: might be a bug in gawk

[Jean-Michel ELYN]

You must know that printf command of gawk takes 2 args: format and data. 
So $2 in your example is understood as those ones. If you don't want 
that, just use print instead of printf.

Jean-Michel.


joanes.polus wrote:
> hello,
>
>    execution of:
>
>    echo "a%28b%29%c"|awk -F "a" '{printf $2}'
>
>    give this result:
>
>    %28b%c
>
>    and not
>
>    %28b%29%c
>
>    So may be a bug or i do not understand something in awk.
>
> Bye.
>
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