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FPAT/printing fields bug


From: Ed Morton
Subject: FPAT/printing fields bug
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:52:22 -0500
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Looks like there's an FPAT bug in gawk 5.0.1:

$ echo ',b' | gawk -v FPAT='[^,]*' '{print $2}'
b

$ echo ',b' | gawk -v FPAT='[^,]*' '{print $1, $2}'

$

It can be worked around in the same way as a previous bug (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2017-04/msg00000.html):

$ echo ',b' | gawk -v FPAT='[^,]*' '{oFPAT=FPAT; FPAT=""; FPAT=oFPAT; print $1, $2}'
 b
$

Regards,

    Ed.


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