FS bug in gawk

[Marek Antozi]

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Hello,

there is a bug probably when handling FS in GNU awk:

$ awk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.1
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$ echo A_B_C | awk '{FS="_"; print $1}'
A_B_C

This awk comes from RedHat (but ot does not matter, it "works" this away on
other OSes too).

This should works like, for example, awk in Solaris:

$ echo A_B_C | awk '{FS="_"; print $1}'
A

Regards,

- -Marek Antozi
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System Administrator, Forte Tools
SUN Microsystems, Software System Group
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