bug in GNU Awk 3.1.6 - problem with OFS

[Yuri Malykhin]

The variable OFS seems working strange:



$ echo "1 2 3" | awk 'BEGIN{OFS=":"}{print}'



-| 1 2 3



while



$ echo "1 2 3" | awk 'BEGIN{OFS=":"}{$1=$1;print}'



-| 1:2:3



Note: I use Cygwin.