Re: Possible Bug

[Aharon Robbins]

The regular expression routines have changed. I will see
if I can track this down. It may take a while.

Arnold

> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:31:34 -0500
> From: address@hidden
> Subject: Possible Bug
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> 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