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Re: [Help-bash] IGNORECASE and split()
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Eduardo Bustamante |
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Re: [Help-bash] IGNORECASE and split() |
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Thu, 19 Sep 2019 20:04:52 -0700 |
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 7:17 PM Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> IGNORECASE changes the behavior of split() inconsistently. Why is it
> so? Should it be consistent?
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> awk -v IGNORECASE=1 -e 'BEGIN { n = split("abc", a, "B"); print n }' #
> I'd expect the result be 2 here.
> 1
> awk -v IGNORECASE=1 -e 'BEGIN { n = split("abc", a, /B/); print n }'
> 2
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