Re: FIELDWIDTHS question

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi. Thank you for taking the time to send a bug report.

Your gawk version is out of date. Please upgrade to the current
version, 3.1.8, which does not have this problem.

Arnold

> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:56:36 +0100
> Subject: FIELDWIDTHS question
> From: Andy Chambers <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> The documentation states...
>
> "Each number specifies the width of the field *including* columns between
> fields"
>
> So how come I get the following...
>
> echo 1234 |gawk -vFIELDWIDTHS="2 2" '{ print NF }'
> => 1
>
> echo 1234 |gawk -vFIELDWIDTHS="2 2 2" '{ print NF }'
> => 2
>
> gawk --version
> => GNU Awk 3.1.5
> Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2005 Free Software Foundation.
>
> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> (at your option) any later version.
>
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> GNU General Public License for more details.
>
> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301,
> USA.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Andy
> -- 
> ----
> Andy Chambers
> Formedix Ltd