Re: might be a bug in gawk

[Pierre Gaston]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:58 AM, joanes.polus <address@hidden>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.
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> System:
>   Archlinux 2008
>
> Hardware:
>   Linux 2.6.28-ARCH
>   i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
>
>
> This may have been lost into the discussion but whether
this is a bug or not, the first argument of printf is a formatting string
where some
special chars are interpreted and thus you should avoid putting data there,
ie in your case:

 printf  "%s",$2