From: Norton Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: GAWK Incorrect Data Display
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 07:19:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8aaa6927-34db-e61c-052d-519a23231009@huarp.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b948aa3b-78b5-c4ad-47b5-f3ded93f8bfc@t-online.de>
On 12/19/2020 7:16 PM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 20.12.2020 um 00:34 schrieb Jason McGee via Cygwin:
>> I confirmed there is not a problem with my code by comparing Cygwin
>> against Gawk for Windows.
>
> Your presentation of the problem is quite unclear, but the root cause
> is almost certainly not in the code, but in the data.
>
> You're bound to be feeding Windows text files to a Unix tool. You
> need to reformat the file to Unix format.
>
I agree. The input likely has <cr><lf> line endings. Cygwin's gawk
expects just <lf>, so the <cr> gets wrapped into the regular line text.
Your ", 0" is not replacing the beginning of the line, it is
overprinting it after the <cr>.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-20 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-19 23:34 Jason McGee
2020-12-19 23:51 ` Jason McGee
2020-12-20 0:16 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2020-12-20 12:19 ` Norton Allen [this message]
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