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Re: sub() function do'nt alter string length in awk 3.1.5
From: |
Jürgen Kahrs |
Subject: |
Re: sub() function do'nt alter string length in awk 3.1.5 |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:38:20 +0200 |
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Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060317) |
Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Hi. I think I may have replied to this, so apologies if this is a repeat.
>
> First, this problem will go away if you use the "C" locale:
>
> export LC_ALL=C
>
> I have this fixed in my current code base. If it's an urgen problem I can
> try to generate a patch for you. Otherwise, it'll be fixed in the next
> release.
Did you use the patch that Kimura Koichi posted
earlier this year ?
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2006-03/msg00004.html
I tried the patch in our xmlgawk CVS source tree
and the patch solved the bugs in both test cases
(Kimura Koichi's and Frantisek Hanzl's).