On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 06:14:14PM +0000, François Wendling wrote:
> Package: mawk
> Version: 1.3.3-17
> Severity: normal
...
> I have found a bug in mawk. I wanted to strip HTML tags the dirty way, and
> wanted to make a perlish non greedy match (i since discovered it wasn't
> possible...), but on the way, i made a typo and executed this :
>
> # You don't want to run this ;)
> mawk '{gsub("<.+*>"," ")} NF > 0 {print}' /tmp/html It doesn't appear to be a problem with current mawk: mawk 1.3.4 20121209 Copyright 2012, Thomas E. Dickey Copyright 1996, Michael D. Brennan internal regex compiled limits: max NF 32767 sprintf buffer 2040 -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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