Re: GNU awk ver. 3.1.6 OFS-related bug

[Aharon Robbins]

In article <address@hidden>,
Andreas Schwab  <address@hidden> wrote:
>George Zarkadas <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Awk does not honor OFS assignments in the BEGIN block (when FS is also
>> previously set), unless a statement inside the applied rule's action
>> forces record reconstitution. 
>
>Correct.  $0 is only rebuilt if a field is changed.

Just to make it 100% clear - the reported behavior is not a bug.
$0 is the full record, including leading and trailing and intervening
whitespace.

Thanks for taking the time to send in a report.

Arnold
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