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

[arnold]

Hi.

Thanks for the report. You are correct. I will fix this.

Thanks,

Arnold

Marcus <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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