# From: "T. X. G." <leopardie333@yahoo.com>

# Subject: Bug in regular expression \B using DFA

# Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:23:09 -0700 (PDT)

# To: bug-gawk@gnu.org

# 

# ~ gawk --version

# GNU Awk 3.1.6

# Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2007 Free Software Foundation.

# 

# ......

# 

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

# 

# ~ LC_ALL=C gawk 'BEGIN{x="abcd";gsub(/\B/,":",x);print x}'

# a:b:cd

# 

# ~ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 gawk 'BEGIN{x="abcd";gsub(/\B/,":",x);print x}'

# a:b:c:d

# 

# ~ GAWK_NO_DFA=1 gawk 'BEGIN{x="abcd";gsub(/\B/,":",x);print x}'

# a:b:c:d

BEGIN { x = "abcd"; gsub(/\B/,":",x); print x }