Re: Anomalous handling of last "field" in line

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi.

Someting like this should only happen if RS is not "\n".  If RS is indeed
"\n" then there's a bug somewhere and you need to supply:

1. the version of gawk
2. the OS you are using
3. the compiler used to compile gawk
4. a small program and data file that reproduce the bug.

Thanks,

Arnold

In article <address@hidden>,
Christopher Durant  <address@hidden> wrote:
>If $n is the last field in a line the it will contain a newline as 
>its last character.  This applies also if the line is "split" where 
>e.g. split ($0, field) will extract a field[n] which terminates with 
>a newline.  length($n) correctly numbers the characters in the last 
>field to include the newline character.
>
>This "feature" seems to have no benefits.
>
>Christopher
>
>
>


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