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Re: awk gsub problem
On Sep 15 18:30, Lee wrote:
> I don't know if this is just a problem with the cygwin version of awk,
> me misunderstanding something or what, but it looks like gsub isn't
> working correctly in awk:
> $ sh /tmp/test.awk
> s= ::0:: should = ::S0::
>
> $ cat /tmp/test.awk
> awk '
> BEGIN {
> s="Serial0"
> gsub("[a-z]","",s)
> printf("s= ::%s:: should = ::S0::\n", s)
> exit
> } '
>
>
> I also tried it with IGNORECASE=0 and with "awk --traditional" - same results.
>
> $ which awk
> /usr/bin/awk
>
> $ awk --version
> GNU Awk 3.1.8
Works fine for me:
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 vmbert7 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin
$ gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.8
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2010 Free Software Foundation.
[...]
$ sh //calimero/corinna/test.awk
s= ::S0:: should = ::S0::
$
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