Re: How to use the character list of regexp in gawk

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi.  This is rather weird behavior. I don't know why you're getting
it. It sounds like someone left some debug code in whatever port
you are using.

In any case, 3.1.6 is sort of old; you should get a newer version.

Thanks,

Arnold

> Subject: How to use the character list of regexp in gawk
> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 23:48:34 +0800
> From: "Sun, Bill" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
>
> Hi, 
> 
> I have a gawk script snippets like:
> 
>     if ($0 ~ /^[0-9]+$/)
> 
>     {
> 
>         $0 = "";
> 
>     }
> 
> When I run this script under the WinXp's console, it always output a
> great of 
> 
> ......
> 
> 
> buffer: 0
> 
> buffer: :
> 
> buffer: Y
> 
> buffer: a
> 
> buffer: 4
> 
> buffer: 0
> 
> buffer: 8
> 
>  
> 
> ......
> 
>  
> 
> Is it something wrong in gawk(3.1.6) or in my script?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill