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# From: Jose Nazario <jose@monkey.org>
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# netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
# Subject: bug in gawk/gsub() (not present in nawk)
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# while playing with some tools in data massaging, i had to migrate from an
# openbsd/nawk system to a netbsd/gawk system. i found the folllowing
# behavior, which seems to be a bug.
#
# the following gsub() pattern has a strange effect under gawk which is not
# visible in nawk (at least as compiled on openbsd). the intention is to
# take a string like "This Is a Title: My Title?" and turn it into a
# normalized string: "ThisIsaTitleMyTitle". to do this, i wrote the
# following gross gsub line in an awk script:
#
# gsub(/[\ \"-\/\\:;\[\]\@\?\.\,\$]/, "", $2)
# print $2
#
# in gawk, as found in netbsd-macppc/1.5.2, this will drop the first letter
# of every word. the resulting string will be "hissitleyitle", while in nawk
# as built on openbsd-3.3 this will get it correct.
#
# any insights? the inconsistency with this relatively naive pattern seems a
# bit odd. (i would up installing nawk built from openbsd sources.)
#
# thanks. sorry i didn't send a better bug report, netbsd folks, i'm not
# much of a netbsd user, and i dont have send-pr set up. yes, this is a
# slightly older version of netbsd and gawk:
#
# $ uname -a
# NetBSD entropy 1.5.2 NetBSD 1.5.2 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Feb 10 02:00:04 EST
# 2002 jose@entropy:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC macppc
# $ awk --version
# GNU Awk 3.0.3
# Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-1997 Free Software Foundation.
#
#
#
# thanks.
#
# ___________________________
# jose nazario, ph.d. jose@monkey.org
# http://monkey.org/~jose/
#
#
{
gsub(/[\ \"-\/\\:;\[\]\@\?\.\,\$]/, "")
print
}