Possible Bug

[Phillip . Long]

Dear Folks:
 
I use GAWK on a QNX4 platform and on a WinXP platform (the CYGWIN port); the
QNX4 port is GAWK 3.0.3, and the CYGWIN port is 3.1.4.  Off and on, I have
used this command-line script to filter out control characters so my console
window isn't hosed:
    gawk '{gsub(/[\x00-\x1f\x7e-\xff]/,"*");print}' x.x
    -|gawk: fatal: Invalid range end: /[/
The file involved does not matter.

The same script on my QNX4 box successfully parses the entire file,
regardless of the file.  If I replace the \x00 with \x01, the CYGWIN port is
successful as well.  This script used to work when GAWK was at 3.0.3 on
CYGWIN; has anything changed in <NUL> handling since then?
 
 
Thx, Phil Long
 
 
 


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