Re: -F fs_val handles backslash-newline differently, compared to -v FS=val and FS=val

[arnold]

That is an interesting report. I will (eventually)
investigate; I don't have a lot of free time at the moment.

Thanks,

Arnold

Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> wrote:

> GNU awk 5.1.1
>
> gawk -F '\
> a' 'BEGIN { print "FS1=" FS }'
>
> gawk -v FS='\
> a' 'BEGIN { print "FS2=" FS }'
>
> echo | gawk '{ print "FS3=" FS }' FS='\
> a'
>
> The first command treats "backslash+newline" as backslash:
>
> FS1=\a
>
> The second and third commands treat the same as empty string:
>
> FS2=a
> FS3=a
>
> I think it would be better if all forms have the same rules.
>