probable bug/shortcoming of gawk v3.0.3

[David Inman]

Kind Sir or Madam:

 

Help! Please!

 

On Win98SE with Cygwin's GAWK V3.0.3 (latest I could find compiled):

1. Create a file with one character, say 'a' and NO '\n' following it.

    You may find this tricky to do since many programs just slap a '\n'

   on the end when you don't want one.

2. Create a file as above with the letter 'a' but include the '\n' at the end of the line.

3. Read the files with getline.  (The files were not specified on the command line

   invoking gawk.)

 

I have not found a way to differentiate between these  two files when reading

the files within GAWK by comparing what is read.  I need to know if a '\n'

was part of the last line of the file or not and the getline functions seems to

treat them as if they were identical.  I played with RS, ORS, FS, ... to no avail.

 

Thanks,

 

Dave Inman

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