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Re: [bug-gawk] Assigning RegExp Variables on the Command Line
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arnold |
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Re: [bug-gawk] Assigning RegExp Variables on the Command Line |
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Sun, 13 Oct 2019 12:32:25 -0600 |
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Stephane Chazelas <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2019-10-06 21:20:38 +0100, Stephane Chazelas:
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> > I note that -F @/./ doesn't do the same as -v FS=@/./
> [...]
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> $ echo ab.c | ./gawk 'BEGIN{FS = @/./}; {print typeof(FS), $1, NF}'
> regexp ab 2
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> is also confusing. I'd expect to see
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> regexp 5
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> if FS is a regexp.
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> --
> Stephane
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This is now fixed in git. The same issue applied to RS, also fixed.
Thanks for the report.
Arnold