Re: [bug-gawk] gawk 4.1.4: carriage returns not tacitly swollowed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Jannick" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 10:53:17 +0200
> 
> Applying `gawk "/^\\w+$/{print}"` to a CRLF file with simple words in each
> line prints nothing, i.e. the carriage return is not silently digested by
> gawk which I would expect it to do and IIRC gawk used to do up some time in
> the past. Running a LF copy of the CRLF file against this code, emits all
> lines.
> 
> I am just wondering if this should considered a bug, since a line end should
> always read as '(\r\n|\r|\n)'? I cannot dig into that a little bit more
> right now, because I am currently not able to clone the git repository
> (probably due to some savannah issue).

Doesn't support for CRLF go against the current tendencies in Cygwin
development to provide a strictly Posix behavior in this regard?
That's the impression I'm getting from recent discussions of related
issues on the Cygwin list.

So please take this up with the Cygwin folks first, and if they agree
with you, then some Cygwin-specific patch should be in order to fix
the behavior you are seeing.  If they don't agree with you, then what
you see is the expected behavior; you should use a native Windows port
of Gawk if you want CRLF end-of-line to be transparently supported by
Gawk.