Re: Gawk match() strange behaviour

[Jürgen Kahrs]

Alain Ketterlin wrote:

> The following program:
> 
> {
>     r = match($0,/^ */,t);
>     print "R=" r " S=" RSTART " L=" RLENGTH;
> }
> 
> produces this (< signals  input, > signals output)
> 
> <
>> R=-1208966831 S=-1208966831 L=1208966850
> < random
>> R=1 S=1 L=34
> <  random
>> R=1 S=1 L=2

Nice test case.

> The first line is an empty line, and match returns seemingly random values.
> The second should have a match, but not of length 34. The third is correct.

I just tried your test case with gawk 3.1.6 and
also xgawk 3.1.6:

./work/gawk/savannah/gawk-stable/gawk -f x.awk

R=1 S=1 L=0

R=1 S=1 L=0

R=1 S=1 L=0

R=1 S=1 L=0

R=1 S=1 L=0

So, the problem should really have disappeared in gawk 3.1.6.