Re: User error or gawk bug?

[Garrett Cooper]

    This is the expected behavior by the way (in perl):

address@hidden ~ $ SLASHES="////////" ; perl -e '$ARGV[0] =~
s#/{2,}#/#; print "$ARGV[0]\n";' $SLASHES
/

    I'm trying to avoid using perl though, because the probability of
an embedded device having awk is much greater than it having perl, and
the overhead involved with perl is much greater than awk of course.
Thanks,
-Garrett

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Garrett Cooper <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi GNU folks,
>   While testing out something to emulate $(abspath ) in GNU make
> 3.81+, I tried wrote the following in awk:
>
>   gsub (/\/{2,}/, "")
>
>   I expect it to squish all duplicate `/' in $0. Interestingly
> enough, it doesn't match my expected behavior:
>
> address@hidden ~]$ SLASHES="////////" ; test "$(echo "$SLASHES" |
> awk '{ gsub (/\/{2,}/, ""); print }')" = "$SLASHES"; echo $?
> 0
>
>   I've tried this same code on RHEL 4.6 (uses gawk), Gentoo Linux
> (uses gawk), and my FreeBSD CURRENT box (uses nawk), and the results
> are the same. So, my question is: did I do something wrong, or
> accidentally stumble on an *awk bug?