Re: sub() function do'nt alter string length in awk 3.1.5

[Jürgen Kahrs]

Aharon Robbins wrote:

> Hi. I think I may have replied to this, so apologies if this is a repeat.
> 
> First, this problem will go away if you use the "C" locale:
> 
>       export LC_ALL=C
> 
> I have this fixed in my current code base. If it's an urgen problem I can
> try to generate a patch for you. Otherwise, it'll be fixed in the next 
> release.

Did you use the patch that Kimura Koichi posted
earlier this year ?

  http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2006-03/msg00004.html

I tried the patch in our xmlgawk CVS source tree
and the patch solved the bugs in both test cases
(Kimura Koichi's and Frantisek Hanzl's).