Re: inconstancy with RS = "(\r?\n){2}"

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

in my code example it meant to print after the second empty newline,
but it didnt
and needed multiple control -d's to get output and end
..

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 2:14 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i dont have such coloring, the input is 'foo\nbar\n\n\n\n..none\n'
> then it prints the first time, then two control-d's or three are
> needed to print the rest and end
> ..
>
> gawk -v RS='(\r?\n){2}' -v ORS= '{ print "-" NR, $0, RT }'
>
> foo
> bar
>
>
>
>
>
>
> none
> -1 foo
> bar
>
> -2
>
> -3
>
> -4
> none
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 7:28 AM Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure what you did to demonstrate that this setting does not work. 
> > But this is the awk program I tried:
> >    BEGIN { RS="(\r?\n){2}" }
> >    NR % 2 == 1 { print NR " " $0; }
> > and this is how I ran it (using 5.1.0), program output shown with a green 
> > background:
> > /tmp$ gawk -f doublers.awk
> > abc
> > def
> >
> > ghi
> > jkl
> > 1 abc
> > def
> >
> > mno
> > pqr
> >
> > stu
> > vwx
> > 3 mno
> > pqr
> > /tmp$
> >
> > HTH
> > -W
> >
> > On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 04:39, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> i tried this in my httpd project, but it doesnt result anything
> >>
> >> gawk -v RS="(\r?\n){2}" 1
> >>
> >> two enters it doesnt catch also
> >>
> >> it when entered some data sometimes needs multiple control d s to proceed \
> >> end
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Wolfgang Laun
> >