Re: [bug-gawk] Postdecrementing $NF

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re this:

> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 02:56:52 +0200
> From: Adam Zieli??ski <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [bug-gawk] Postdecrementing $NF
>
> $NF-- (or even $(NF--) ) - doesn't seem to work as intended.
>
> Instead of giving me a field value and decrementing FN after that, it 
> converts field value to number and then decrements it.
>
> Doing the same via variable set to NF works perfectly.

Please specify the version of gawk you are using (from gawk --version)
and on what system you're running it.

Please include a small test program that demonstrates the bug. (I think I
see the bug but would like to know how you produced it.)

Thanks,

Arnold