[bug-gawk] Assigning RegExp Variables on the Command Line

[Marcus]

Hello! I suppose there's a misprint in the manual dealing with assigning regexp 
variables on the command line (v 5.1.0, sec. 6.1.3.2).

gawk -v ’re1=foo|bar/’ ’...’ /path/to/file1 ’re2=baz|quux/’ /path/to/file2

If I run it "as is", I'll get:

$ /path/to/gawk -v 're1=foo|bar/' 'BEGIN { print typeof(re1); print re1; exit }'
string
foo|bar/
$

This version works for me:

$ /path/to/gawk -v 're1=@/foo|bar/' 'BEGIN { print typeof(re1); print re1; exit 
}'
regexp
foo|bar
$

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