Hello Brandon,
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:53:59PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 11:37, Robert Drehmel wrote:
> > To me, this seems like a bug in 'gawk'. The AWK language uses
> > only the first character in RS as the record separator, to my
> > knowledge.
>
> Hm, I thought that was a gawk extension.
>From the GNU AWK 3.0.6 source:
"""
else if (RS->stlen > 1) {
static int warned = FALSE;
RS_regexp = make_regexp(RS->stptr, RS->stlen, IGNORECASE, TRUE);
if (do_lint && ! warned) {
warning("multicharacter value of `RS' is not portable");
warned = TRUE;
}
}
"""
You are right. However, I still consider it a bug. :-)
ciao,
-robert
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