Re: might be a bug in gawk

[Dave B]

Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:58:29PM -0400, joanes.polus wrote:
>>    execution of:
>>
>>    echo "a%28b%29%c"|awk -F "a" '{printf $2}'
>>
>>    give this result:
>>
>>    %28b%c
>>
>>    and not
>>
>>    %28b%29%c
>>
>>    So may be a bug or i do not understand something in awk.
> 
> Try using "print" instead of "printf" and you should get
> the desired result.

Agreed. However, I'd still expect to get a "not enough arguments to printf"
kind of error, which is not produced (whereas mawk and Bell labs awk do
complain if asked to run the OP's code).

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D.