ozan (oz) s. yigit
ozan (oz) s. yigit
thanks for the note. the difference in behaviour relates to the difference in regular expression engines. the one in onetrueawk is quite old, dates back to 80s. in any case,...
i'm keeping this issue open because while I may leave this unfixed for the moment due to other issues, the correct behaviour appears to be what is implemented in most...
current maintainer email address (mine) is in readme. I may check in a SECURITY.md file later.
hi deborah, thanks for the report. I have a freebsd13 at hand, 20190529 release gives the same error.I have tested earlier versions as well. so it is not a change...
> Evidently the bug has been around for a while. yep, I've tested all those, including sol 8/10 nawk, awk, as well as MKS awk which solaris shipped as sys5...
@millert obvious fix gives us 225 reduce/reduce. we can remove `re` from `| re | term` combinations, that reduces the reduce/reduce conflics somewhat, better but not great. to be continued.
I'll think about it. I don't like hiding this wart, it has been there for a very long time, there could be scripts that depend on this.
I found an unfortunate number cases of awk -Ft in github and elsewhere. that wart is better known than I thought.
github code search alone finds 241 hits, [sans about a third to half of those that are "-FT".] some of our own solaris scripts have a handful of instances. didn't...
anyway, i suppose it is time to deprecate the t-wart.