Re: match finds wrong space.

[Davide Brini]

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:34:25 +0300 Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> wrote:

> > regards - Chris Willis in the UK# insjk.awk
> > 
> > BEGIN {
> >     s = "Mary Ann jane"
> >     n = match( s, /\040[a-z]/ )
> >     print n, s
> >     }
> 
> Hi. Current gawk is correct, and 3.0.3 is wrong. You'll note that
> following the \040 for a space you have [a-z]. This matches *lower case
> letters*; the "A" following the first first is an upper case letter.

But it's matched in his example.

> So, there's no bug.

He is saying that

match( s, /\040[a-z]/ )

on the line 

"Mary Ann jane"

gives 5 (meaning [a-z] matches the "A"), whereas it should give 9.

I explained the reason for that in my post.

-- 
D.