V7 awk bug - (nf)
liberte
liberte at uiucdcs.UUCP
Thu Mar 29 13:29:31 AEST 1984
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uiucdcs!liberte Mar 28 15:58:00 1984
We worked on figureing out what the bug might be on our Berkeley 4.1 and 4.2
and learned the following:
on 4.1
- If you repeat the split(... line , it doesnt work in a different way and
comes up with some garbage. If you repeat it again (three times) then it
works correctly.
- If you use a literal string instead of $2, it may work if another call
to split interferes in some way - an order dependency. If you use a
regular variable with a string value instead, it doesnt work in another way,
sometimes.
on 4.2
- Field variables seemed to work correctly, but the regular variable had
yet another different problem. This version of awk includes a bug fix
from net.bugs.4bsd by sun!shannon, Dec 10, 1983
Daniel LaLiberte
(uiucdcs!liberte)
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