Re: Unexpected result while constructing strings

[Hermann Peifer]

On 30/10/2010 13:13, Davide Brini wrote:
> Back to the example, I may be wrong but the only way I see for FS ++c to
> evaluate to plain 0 is that for some reason they are grouped as
>
> FS + +c
>
> since c is 0, "+c" is also 0, and the result of the "addition" between FS
> and "+c" is 0.
>
> FWIW, mawk shows the same behavior.

Thanks for the pointer to the FAQ. Any idea about this one:

$ gawk-stable/gawk 'BEGIN{ c++ ; print FS ++c }'
01

$ gawk-stable/gawk 'BEGIN{ c++ ; print (FS) ++c }'
 2