Re: gawk: unexpected behavior, but not a bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:38:11 +0200
> From: Thomas Schwinge <address@hidden>
> In the end `igli' and `redondos' had an idea:
> 
> #v+
> $ awk < data/Main/ThomasSchwinge.txt 'BEGIN { FS = ": "; name = "unknown"; 
> email = "address@hidden" } { sub("\r$", "") } $1 ~ /\* Name$/ { name = $2 } 
> $1 ~ /\* Email$/ { email = $2 } END { print name " <" email ">" }'
> Thomas Schwinge <address@hidden>
> #v-
> 
> Who would have thought about that...  Not me, for sure.

You mean, that DOS-style CRLF end-of-line is not recognized by Gawk on
Posix systems?  If so, that's not a bug, it's a usage error.  But if
this was on DOS or on Windows, then this is some kind of bug, so
please post the details in that case.