Re: gensub() indirectly called with more than 2 parameters: produce a strange error

[arnold]

"Arguments" is a synonym for "parameters". I will see if it makes
sense to try to use only one term everywhere.

Thanks,

Arnold

Denis Shirokov <cosmogen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi GAWK Team!
>
> the built-in gensub() generate strange error in case if called infirectly
> with more than two parameters
>
> to reproduce this issue run attached (example.gwk) script using:
>
> gawk -f ./example.gwk
>
> example:
>
>       BEGIN{
>             f = "awk::gensub"
>             a = b = c = d = ""
>             @f( a, b, c, d )
>             }
>
> outputs:
>
>       gawk: ./example.gwk:7: fatal: awk::gensub: can be called indirectly
> only with two arguments
>
> two arguments? =(
>
> Regards
> Denis