Re: gawk bug with RS="^..."

[Aharon Robbins]

> > > [...] RS matched the second line, [...] at the beginning of the buffer
> > 
> > That's not the case.  [...] It's more likely an issue
> > that gawk isn't using whatever regex magic that says that the starting
> > position is in the middle of a buffer so that ^ fails to match.
>
> You are right, of course.  So the fix would be to set the flag as soon
> as gawk moves from the beginning of the file.  Please cc it here if you
> fix it.  (I might get to it, eventually.)

Unfortunately, it's not a flag.  The interface is

        re_search(pat, buf, start_index, length, regs)

and the simple change to the code to not use a start index of zero
broke the test suite.

It's not worth the trouble to fix at this point.

Arnold