gawk 3.1.8 "Fatal: unbalanced ("

[Christoph Moser]

Hello,

since version 3.1.8 of gawk I get an error in the "sub"-commands with chars >
239 (octal value) between "()":

> echo "" | gawk '{print "\265"}'
µ
> echo "Hallo" | gawk '{print gensub(/(\265)/,"\\1","g")}'
gawk: Fatal: unbalanced (
> echo "Hallo" | gawk '{print gensub(/(\240)/,"\\1","g")}'
gawk: Fatal: unbalanced (
> echo "Hallo" | gawk '{print gensub(/(\239)/,"\\1","g")}'
Hallo
> echo "Hallo" | gawk '{print sub(/(\265)/,"1")}
gawk: Fatal: unbalanced (
> echo "Hallo" | gawk '{print sub(/\265/,"1")}'
0


> gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.4.3
> uname -a
SunOS bmw 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500 Solaris
> gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.8

Character encoding: iso-8859-15


Best regards
  Christoph