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Re: Possible bug in gawk: local FS not used
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Aharon Robbins |
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Re: Possible bug in gawk: local FS not used |
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Mon, 18 May 2009 21:48:58 +0300 |
In article <address@hidden> you write:
>Aharon Robbins wrote:
>
>> This is regular old-fashioned shadowning of a global variable by a local one.
>> So, the behavior as such is "intended".
>
>Well, I think his whole point was that the "local" value of FS (that
>shadowing the global value) was not taken into account when splitting the line.
Possibly - but it still worked "as intended" since only the global FS
has any affect, and a local one isn't special.
In any case, it's now fixed in CVS.
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