On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 12:02:58PM +0200, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> Script started on Thu Jun 30 21:50:35 2005
> jordan% awk 'BEGIN { FS = " *: *"; } { print $1 "|" $2; }'
> 1:2
> 1|2
> 1:21
> 1|2
> 1 :add
> 1|a
> 1a:bdd
> 1a|
> 1a :bdd
> 1a|
> 1a :2dd
> 1a|

This appears to be fixed with newer nawk - the nawk from pkgsrc
doesn't exhibit this problem. I'll look into upgrading the
in-tree nawk to newer version.

Jaromir

> jordan% gawk 'BEGIN { FS = " *: *"; } { print $1 "|" $2; }'
> 1:2
> 1|2
> 1:21
> 1|21
> 1 :add
> 1|add
> 1a:bdd
> 1a|bdd
> 1a :bdd
> 1a|bdd
> 1a :2dd
> 1a|2dd
> jordan% exit
> 
> Script done on Thu Jun 30 21:53:02 2005
> 
> Am I making something completely stupid? Is someone seeing this very
> same behavior? Setting debug level shows that nawk is accepting the 
> correct NF, but the count on characters is definitively wrong (ISTR that
> there were notes in the sources about collapsing sequences and i18n
> causing problems, but this is just a memory).
> 
> If anybody can confirm/infirm and gives some clue.
> 
> TIA
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