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[Jaap van Arragon <j.vanarragon AT lukkien.com>]

SERVER:~# awk -W version
mawk 1.3.3 Nov 1996, Copyright (C) Michael D. Brennan

compiled limits:
max NF             32767
sprintf buffer      1020

What can I do? Everything seems to be right but it and working....;-(


On 7/16/09 4:04 AM, "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org> wrote:

> Steve Langasek wrote:
>> 
>>> DRIVER=$(echo ${DRIVER_LINE} \
>>> | awk -F '[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*' '{print $2}')
>> 
>>> sh -x echoes: 
>> 
>>>> ++ echo Driver = FreeTDS
>>>> ++ awk -F '[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*' '{print $2}'
>>>> + DRIVER=
>> 
>>> It's as though your awk doesn't accept Posix regular expressions as a
>>> field separator.  Is there any reason to think that could be so?  What
>>> does "awk --version" say?
>> 
>>> $ awk --version
>>> GNU Awk 3.1.3
>>> Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2003 Free Software Foundation.
>> 
>> gawk supports this syntax, mawk (the default on Debian) does not.
> 
> Thanks Steve!  Am I missing something, or is that totally broken?
> 
> http://193.110.243.4/hppd/hpux/Shells/mawk-1.3.3/man.html
> 
> "mawk conforms to the Posix 1003.2 (draft 11.3)"
> 
> Posix Regular expression for awk are defined by the OpenGroup:
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/awk.html#tag_04_06_13_
> 04
> 
> which refers to 
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html#tag_09_
> 01
> 
> which clearly defines [:space:] as a basic RE character class expression.
> 
> 
> So mawk claims to be Posix-compliant, but isn't.  Not supporting Posix
> regular expressions in 2009 is just lame.
> 
> Bah.  Why do they do this?
> 
> Sorry, Jaap, afaict your awk nonstandard.  Thanks for bringing it to my
> attention.  I'll modify osql to test for that.
> 
> --jkl
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