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From: | David Inman |
Subject: | probable bug/shortcoming of gawk v3.0.3 |
Date: | Thu, 8 Mar 2001 22:55:24 -0800 |
Kind Sir or Madam:
Help! Please!
On Win98SE with Cygwin's GAWK V3.0.3 (latest I
could find compiled):
1. Create a file with one character, say 'a' and NO
'\n' following it.
You may find this tricky to do
since many programs just slap a '\n'
on the end when you don't want
one.
2. Create a file as above with the letter 'a'
but include the '\n' at the end of the line.
3. Read the files with getline. (The
files were not specified on the command line
invoking gawk.)
I have not found a way to differentiate between
these two files when reading
the files within GAWK by comparing what is
read. I need to know if a '\n'
was part of the last line of the file or not and
the getline functions seems to
treat them as if they were identical. I
played with RS, ORS, FS, ... to no avail.
Thanks,
Dave Inman
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