Re: [bug-gawk] [Question] Gawk 5.0.1: INPLACE_SUFFIX compatibility

[arnold]

See below...

"Andrew J. Schorr" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Jakub,
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:02:20PM +0200, Jakub Martisko wrote:
> > with the introduction of namespaces, the INPLACE_SUFFIX=.foo seems to no
> > longer work and has been replaced by the inplace::suffix=.foo. Is there
> > some way, to make scripts using the INPLACE_SUFFIX variable (and probably 
> > some others) 
> > compatible with both gawk 4.2.1 and 5.0.1?
> > 
> > An ugly way that comes to mind is something like:
> > ... gawk --version| ((grep 4.2.1 >/dev/null && echo "INPLACE_SUFFIX=")|| 
> > echo "inplace::suffix=") ...
> > 
> > Is there some better (ideally a gawk only) way of doing this?
>
> I already noticed the bugzilla on this, and we have started to work on a patch
> to restore backwards compatibility by supporting either inplace::suffix or
> INPLACE_SUFFIX...
>
> Regards,
> Andy

The inplace code has been fixed, along with a namespace bug, and
the git repo is updated.

Thanks for the bug report!

Arnold