Re: gawk 3.1.5 FIELDWIDTHS bug - 1 off

[Aharon Robbins]

I think it's a bug. I'll look at it.  Note that your data would need
to be

        echo abb | ....

for gawk to print each character as a separate field.

Thanks,

Arnold

> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:00:12 +0800 (SGT)
> From: Jeff Chua <address@hidden>
> Subject: gawk 3.1.5 FIELDWIDTHS bug - 1 off
> To: Awk Bug <address@hidden>
>
> echo "a b b" | awk 'BEGIN {FIELDWIDTHS = "1 1 1 "} {print NF}'
>
> 3.1.5 returns 2
> 3.1.4 returns 3
> 3.1.3 returns 3
>
> Is this a new feature or a bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff.