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Setting $0 to fields after changing FS
From: |
Ed Morton |
Subject: |
Setting $0 to fields after changing FS |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 07:23:44 -0600 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 |
I found this on cygwin on Windows XP. Notice the control characters on the
final line of output.
Reading http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/html_node/Bugs.html didn't point me to
the list of known bugs, so I don't know if this is a known problem or not.
Regards,
Ed Morton.
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$ gawk --version | head -2
GNU Awk 3.1.6
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2007 Free Software Foundation.
$ cat -v tst.awk
BEGIN {
FS = "-"
$0="foo,bar"
printf "FS=<%s> NF=<%d> $0=<%s> $1=<%s> $2=<%s>\n",FS,NF,$0,$1,$2
FS = ","
$0 = $1
printf "FS=<%s> NF=<%d> $0=<%s> $1=<%s> $2=<%s>\n",FS,NF,$0,$1,$2
$0 = $2
printf "FS=<%s> NF=<%d> $0=<%s> $1=<%s> $2=<%s>\n",FS,NF,$0,$1,$2
}
$ gawk -f tst.awk | cat -v
FS=<-> NF=<1> $0=<foo,bar> $1=<foo,bar> $2=<>
FS=<,> NF=<2> $0=<foo,bar> $1=<foo> $2=<bar>
FS=<,> NF=<1> $0=<M-TM-^]^T> $1=<M-TM-^]^T> $2=<>
- Setting $0 to fields after changing FS,
Ed Morton <=