RE: [gawk] Possible Bug

[Phillip . Long]

Stepan:

I tried out the commands, and this is the result:

/work> LC_ALL=C gawk '{gsub(/[\x00-\x1f\x7e-\xff]/,"*");print}' x.x  
gawk: fatal: Invalid range end: /[/
/work> 
/work> gawk '/[\x00-\x1f\x7e-\xff]/' x.x 
gawk: fatal: Invalid range end: /[/
/work> 
/work> gawk '{gsub("[\x00-\x1f\x7e-\xff]","*");print}' x.x 
gawk: (FILENAME=x.x FNR=1) fatal: Invalid range end: /[/
/work> 

I will try 3.1.5 and see what happens.  Thanks for the help, and I'll keep
you posted.

                                        Thx, Phil Long


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stepan Kasal [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 6:21 AM
To: Long, Phillip GOSS
Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: [gawk] Possible Bug

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:31:34PM -0500, address@hidden
wrote:
> CYGWIN port is 3.1.4.  [...]
>     gawk '{gsub(/[\x00-\x1f\x7e-\xff]/,"*");print}' x.x
>     -|gawk: fatal: Invalid range end: /[/

I wasn't able to reproduce the problem on my GNU/Linux.

Perhaps this is a locale issue, could you try
        LC_ALL=C gawk '{gsub(/[\x00-\x1f\x7e-\xff]/,"*");print}' x.x ?

Another question: does the following end with the same error?
        gawk '/[\x00-\x1f\x7e-\xff]/' x.x

And what about this
        gawk '{gsub("[\x00-\x1f\x7e-\xff]","*");print}' x.x (quotes instead
of slashes)?

Arnold has just released gawk 3.1.5, and it's already available on cygwin
site; could you please try this?

I'm just guessing here, but perhaps your answers to the above questions will
help Arnold to identify the problem.

A lot has happened since 1997, when 3.0.3 was released.
In particular, the regex engine was replaced by a totally new code.

HTH,
        Stepan


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