Re: [bug-gawk] FPAT bug?

[Ed Morton]

Andy - I THINK I have used FPAT for other things but I really don't remember and 
I can always write a while(match()) loop instead. So if gawk had a proper CSV 
parser built in then I probably wouldn't need FPAT but if it's a library that I 
might need to download and compile then I wouldn't use that library as I've no 
time/patience for dealing with that if/when I'm just jumping onto someone's 
computer to help them get a specific job done plus I often don't have permission 
to install anything myself on the machines I use so then I'd still need FPAT.

Obviously what I suggested is just a temp workaround for us to get by until a 
fix is available, not a solution.

    Ed.

On 4/2/2017 8:55 AM, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> 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