Re: Fwd: inconstancy with RS = "(\r?\n){2}"

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

id like to keep the double \n RS as was in my code, so i just separately
before strip em away

thanks you for your input :)

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 19:01 Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net> wrote:

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> On 7/26/2021 11:27 AM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
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> i will cause i have to RS = "" and FS = "\n"
> and in another gawk strip the optional \r's away
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> It wasn't clear to me that you wanted to just discard the `\r`s, that
> makes things even simpler. Given that - yes, you can use a separate call to
> awk to remove `\r`s before piping to your real script or you can do what I
> suggested below but change `$0 ~ /^\r?$/` to `{ sub(/\r$/,"") } $0 == ""`.
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>     Ed.
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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 17:01 Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net> 
> <mortoneccc@comcast.net> wrote:
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> On 7/26/2021 8:15 AM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
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> From: Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> 
> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 15:13
> Subject: Re: inconstancy with RS = "(\r?\n){2}"
> To: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> <arnold@skeeve.com> 
> <arnold@skeeve.com> <arnold@skeeve.com>
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> but the RS issue remains
> oh well up to better times somewhen else
> thanks :)
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> Have you considered just writing code to decide if a pair of `\r?\n`s has
> been seen instead of using a more complicated RS? For example, using the
> default RS and ORS, I think this will do what you want:
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> --------
> $ cat tst.awk
> $0 ~ /^\r?$/ {
>     gotRS = 1
>     lineNr = 0
> }
> !gotRS {
>     # just keep appending to the record until the real RS is found
>     rec = ( ++lineNr == 1 ? "" : rec ORS) $0
>     next
> }
> {
>     # we have a complete record so save it in $0 and process as normal
>     gotRS = 0
>     $0 = rec
>     print "<" $0 ">"
> }
> --------
> $ awk -f tst.awk
> 1
> 2
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> <1
> 2>
> 3
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> <3>
> --------
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> Regards,
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>     Ed.
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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 15:12 <arnold@skeeve.com> <arnold@skeeve.com> 
> <arnold@skeeve.com> <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
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> I'm sorry.
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> I give up.
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> You will have to use another approach. Maybe using gawk's built-in
> networking will help.
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> Good luck.
>
> Arnold
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> Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> 
> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
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> and no it doesnt work
> also on the stderr cmd i had to quit nc ( didnt try control d ) and then
> the rest appeared, on the tcpserv side, .. seems bug nothing done
> i fetched git clone new and did bootstrap and further
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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 15:07 Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> 
> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
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> wrote:
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>  i just got now to it
> in my testing on terminal still same bug, on testing that gawk > stderr
> cmd even more newlines were needed to make it print ( on the tcpserv
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> term )
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> that makes it invalid for my httpd and the bug but ill just try now too
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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 13:24 Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> 
> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> thank you big time ! ill just test now
> sorry for not knowing much git
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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 13:17 <arnold@skeeve.com> <arnold@skeeve.com> 
> <arnold@skeeve.com> <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
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> Please do
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>         make distclean
>         git pull
>         git checkout test-socket-patch
>         ./bootstrap.sh && ./configure && make
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> I applied the patch and pushed it to git in that branch.
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> Arnold
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