Re: Fwd: inconstancy with RS = "(\r?\n){2}"

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

no idea, with RS = "\n\n" on terminal no prob, but it may br tcpservers
fault, or gawk fail to recognize raw data by tcpserver
curl doesnt return, control-c makes the bash reader that reads the gawk
recieve it, not before, hmm ..

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 19:17 Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:

> id like to keep the double \n RS as was in my code, so i just separately
> before strip em away
>
> thanks you for your input :)
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 19:01 Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On 7/26/2021 11:27 AM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
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>> i will cause i have to RS = "" and FS = "\n"
>> and in another gawk strip the optional \r's away
>>
>> It wasn't clear to me that you wanted to just discard the `\r`s, that
>> makes things even simpler. Given that - yes, you can use a separate call to
>> awk to remove `\r`s before piping to your real script or you can do what I
>> suggested below but change `$0 ~ /^\r?$/` to `{ sub(/\r$/,"") } $0 == ""`.
>>
>>     Ed.
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>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 17:01 Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net> 
>> <mortoneccc@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On 7/26/2021 8:15 AM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> 
>> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 15:13
>> Subject: Re: inconstancy with RS = "(\r?\n){2}"
>> To: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> <arnold@skeeve.com> 
>> <arnold@skeeve.com> <arnold@skeeve.com>
>>
>>
>> but the RS issue remains
>> oh well up to better times somewhen else
>> thanks :)
>>
>>
>> Have you considered just writing code to decide if a pair of `\r?\n`s has
>> been seen instead of using a more complicated RS? For example, using the
>> default RS and ORS, I think this will do what you want:
>>
>> --------
>> $ cat tst.awk
>> $0 ~ /^\r?$/ {
>>     gotRS = 1
>>     lineNr = 0
>> }
>> !gotRS {
>>     # just keep appending to the record until the real RS is found
>>     rec = ( ++lineNr == 1 ? "" : rec ORS) $0
>>     next
>> }
>> {
>>     # we have a complete record so save it in $0 and process as normal
>>     gotRS = 0
>>     $0 = rec
>>     print "<" $0 ">"
>> }
>> --------
>> $ awk -f tst.awk
>> 1
>> 2
>>
>> <1
>> 2>
>> 3
>>
>> <3>
>> --------
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>     Ed.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 15:12 <arnold@skeeve.com> <arnold@skeeve.com> 
>> <arnold@skeeve.com> <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
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>>
>> I'm sorry.
>>
>> I give up.
>>
>> You will have to use another approach. Maybe using gawk's built-in
>> networking will help.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Arnold
>>
>> Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> 
>> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> and no it doesnt work
>> also on the stderr cmd i had to quit nc ( didnt try control d ) and then
>> the rest appeared, on the tcpserv side, .. seems bug nothing done
>> i fetched git clone new and did bootstrap and further
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 15:07 Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> 
>> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
>>
>> wrote:
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>>  i just got now to it
>> in my testing on terminal still same bug, on testing that gawk > stderr
>> cmd even more newlines were needed to make it print ( on the tcpserv
>>
>> term )
>>
>> that makes it invalid for my httpd and the bug but ill just try now too
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 13:24 Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> 
>> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> thank you big time ! ill just test now
>> sorry for not knowing much git
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 13:17 <arnold@skeeve.com> <arnold@skeeve.com> 
>> <arnold@skeeve.com> <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
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>>
>> Please do
>>
>>         make distclean
>>         git pull
>>         git checkout test-socket-patch
>>         ./bootstrap.sh && ./configure && make
>>
>> I applied the patch and pushed it to git in that branch.
>>
>> Arnold
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