NetBSD Problem Report #32902
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:28:57 GMT
From: i18rabbit@cwazy.co.uk
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Subject: awk with null FS
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>Number: 32902
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: awk with null FS
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 22 14:30:00 +0000 2006
>Originator: i18rabbit@cwazy.co.uk
>Release: NetBSD 3.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD NetBSD 3.0 (MYKERN) #2: Fri Feb 17 13:12:07 AKST 2006 /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/MYKERN i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
when FS is null, awk (nawk) does not split on character boundries
as mawk and gawk do - and this is an important/critical feature in awk
regardless of whether POSIX specifies it or not - and it shouldn't
be too difficult to make nawk do this. good awk scripts break on
nawk for no good reason because of this - it wouldn't hurt anything
to make nawk compatable with mawk and gawk in this regard, and the
coding shouldn't be too difficult with someone familiar with it.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ echo hello | awk -F "" '{ while ( ++i <= NF ) print $i }'
this should produce:
h
e
l
l
o
but with nawk, it produces an error saying FS is null.
>Fix:
NetBSD nawk code needs to be changed.
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