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FIELDWIDTHS broken in awk 3.1.5


From: Ross Cartlidge
Subject: FIELDWIDTHS broken in awk 3.1.5
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:59:39 +1000
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Test with attached script:-

$ awk -W version | head -n 2
GNU Awk 3.1.3
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2003 Free Software Foundation.
$ ./fieldwidths_bug.awk
one two three
11 2222 33
$

$ awk -W version | head -n 2
GNU Awk 3.1.5
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2005 Free Software Foundation.
$ ./fieldwidths_bug.awk
one two three
11 2222
$

rossc

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#!/bin/sh
echo 1122223344 |
awk '
BEGIN {
        IGNORECASE = 1
        FIELDWIDTHS = "2 4 2 "
        print "one","two","three"
}
{
         print $1,$2,$3
}'

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