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Re: [bug-gawk] FPAT bug?


From: Andrew J. Schorr
Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] FPAT bug?
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 09:55:33 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 04:27:46PM -0500, Ed Morton wrote:
> Might be useful until a fix is available. Any better ideas for now?

I have no better ideas, although I can't imagine that such a solution would
please anyone. Here's a crazy question: do you ever use FPAT for anything other
than CSV parsing? If gawk had a proper CSV parser library, would we need FPAT
at all? I don't think I have ever used FPAT (my personal CSV parsing library
takes a brute force string scanning approach), and it seems from the observed
bugginess that FPAT is not often used...

Regards,
Andy



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