[PATCH] join: add support \t as a field delimiter

[Jongyeol Choi]

From a9c435ded74ee7d274e5ae2a0dd239ddb8255264 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jongyeol Choi <address@hidden>

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:29:55 +0900

Subject: [PATCH] join: add support \t as a field delimiter

* src/join.c (main): In the getopt_long loop, handle the \t character.

* tests/misc/join.pl: Add a test case for \t.

---

 src/join.c         | 2 ++

 tests/misc/join.pl | 2 ++

 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/join.c b/src/join.c

index 1da618d..2f6c6ff 100644

--- a/src/join.c

+++ b/src/join.c

@@ -1104,6 +1104,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)

               {

                 if (STREQ (optarg, "\\0"))

                   newtab = '\0';

+                else if (STREQ (optarg, "\\t"))

+                  newtab = '\t';

                 else

                   error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("multi-character tab %s"),

                          quote (optarg));

diff --git a/tests/misc/join.pl b/tests/misc/join.pl

index 7e06f1e..55e71c0 100755

--- a/tests/misc/join.pl

+++ b/tests/misc/join.pl

@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ my @tv = (

 ['3b', '-t ""', ["a 1\nb 1\n", "a 1\nb 2\n"], "a 1\n", 0],

 # use NUL as the field delimiter

 ['3c', '-t "\\0"', ["a\0a\n", "a\0b\n"], "a\0a\0b\n", 0],

+# use TAB as the field delimiter

+['3d', '-t "\\t"', ["a\ta\n", "a\tb\n"], "a\ta\tb\n", 0],

 # Just like -a1 and -a2 when there are no pairable lines

 ['4a', '-v 1', ["a 1\n", "b\n"],   "a 1\n",          0],

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