Re: Possible bug in gawk: local FS not used

[Aharon Robbins]

In article <address@hidden> you write:
>Aharon Robbins wrote:
>
>> This is regular old-fashioned shadowning of a global variable by a local one.
>> So, the behavior as such is "intended".
>
>Well, I think his whole point was that the "local" value of FS (that
>shadowing the global value) was not taken into account when splitting the line.

Possibly - but it still worked "as intended" since only the global FS
has any affect, and a local one isn't special.

In any case, it's now fixed in CVS.
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