Re: bugs in passing uninitialized array to a function

[Micah Cowan]

Micah Cowan wrote:
> Greg Johnson wrote:
>> I am using gawk version 3.1.7.
>>
>> The attached programs illustrate what look to me like two bugs
>> in the handling of uninitialized variables to functions that treat
>> them as arrays.
> 
> Confirmed. I also note that this behavior is not present in 3.1.6 (at
> least, not Ubuntu's 3.1.6-0ubuntu1 package).

I forgot to point out, though, that these snippets still wouldn't work
as seems to be expected: length() gives the length of the string value,
not number of elements in an array.

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