[Fwd: Semicolon is not treated properly in awk 3.1.4]

[Alex Potanin]

Hi James,

You are official Debian maintainer for gawk. There is a bug in Debian 
Testing gawk package (3.1.4) that treats semicolons incorrectly (see 
below). It *does not happen* in the gawk compiled from 3.1.4 source on 
their web site (sorry for bothering you guys). :-)

Cheers,
Alex.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Semicolon is not treated properly in awk 3.1.4
Date:   Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:29:17 -0500
From:   Alex Potanin <address@hidden>
To:     address@hidden, OVM Administrative List <address@hidden>



Hello,

The following happens on 3.1.3 (RH Linux):

zardoz 3 % awk '{ print substr($0, 0, length($0) - 6) } '
JavaMonitorImpl_2_fire_4983_code;
JavaMonitorImpl_2_fire_4983
JavaMonitorImpl_2_fire_4983_code\;
JavaMonitorImpl_2_fire_4983_

The following happens on 3.1.4 (Debian Linux):

address@hidden:~/Purdue/ [snip]$ awk '{ print substr($0, 0, length($0) - 
6) } '
JavaMonitorImpl_2_fire_4983_code
JavaMonitorImpl_2_fire_49
JavaMonitorImpl_2_fire_4983_code\;
JavaMonitorImpl_2_fire_4983

The behavour in 3.1.4 is a bug, I beleive. :-)

Thanks,
Alex.

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