Package: rs
Version: 20120414-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When feeding some table data to rs with an empty cell in the table, rs behaves
randomly.

For instance, with the following two-lines tabular-separated input (see file
attached)

0       0
        0

rs -c 0 2 produces non-deterministic outputs instead of simply outputting
something looking quite like the input.
I ran it 100 times, obtaining this kind of results:

$ for i in `seq 100`; do rs -c 0 2 < rsbug | wc; done | sort | uniq -c
     52       2       2       5
     12       2       3   13632
      9       2       3   21824
      4       2       3   30016
      5       2       3   38208
      1       2       3   46400
      7       2       3    5440
      7       2       3   54592
      3       2       3   62784

The case with only 2 words in the output must be

00
0

where the initial tabulation was gobbled. In the other cases, the number of
spaces produced seems completely random.

Best regards,
Samuel



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