Re: "prints a surprising 1" cannot be reproduced

[arnold]

I have removed that bit from the doc and pushed. Thanks for the report!

Arnold

arnold@skeeve.com wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Thanks for the report. This is a documentation bug. The behavior changed
> (as Nelson pointed out) at gawk 4.2.0 in 2015, due to changes in POSIX.
>
> I will fix the documentation.
>
> Arnold
>
> Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org> wrote:
>
> > In gawktexi.in it says
> >
> > "the following (extreme) pipeline prints a surprising @samp{1}:
> >
> > @example
> > $ @kbd{echo | gawk --posix 'BEGIN @{ RS = "a" @} ; @{ print NF @}'}
> > @print{} 1
> > @end example
> > "
> >
> > But I cannot reproduce it with gawk built from today's master branch:
> >
> > $ echo | ./gawk --posix 'BEGIN { RS = "a" } ; { print NF}'
> > 0
> >
> > Is this a bug in the docs or am I doing something wrong?
> >
> > -- 
> > Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org>