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Re: [bug-gawk] posix flag bug?
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Aharon Robbins |
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Re: [bug-gawk] posix flag bug? |
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Sat, 26 Sep 2015 21:24:19 +0300 |
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Heirloom mailx 12.5 6/20/10 |
> Since multi-dimensional arrays are gawk extensions I expected this:
>
> $ echo 'x' | awk --posix '{arr[1][2]=$0; for (i in arr) for (j in arr[i])
> print arr[i][j]}'
> x
>
> to fail, but clearly it didn't. It didn't fail with the `--traditional` flag
> either. Shouldn't it?
Yes, probably. I'll look into it. It's a tricky thing to catch.
Arnold