github.com/benhoyt/goawk@v1.8.1/testdata/gawk/fsspcoln.awk (about)

     1  # Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:59:42 +0600
     2  # From: Alexander Sashnov <asashnov@sw-soft.com>
     3  # Subject: addon to gawk test suite
     4  # Sender: asashnov@sashnov.plesk.ru
     5  # To: "Arnold D. Robbins" <arnold@skeeve.com>
     6  # Message-id: <lzy8g9xokh.fsf@sashnov.plesk.ru>
     7  # 
     8  # 
     9  # Hello, Arnold.
    10  # 
    11  # I'm hit bug on SuSE 9.1 with awk:
    12  # 
    13  # vsuse91:~ # echo "a:b:c" | awk '{ print $2 }' 'FS=[ :]'
    14  # b
    15  # vsuse91:~ # echo "a:b:c" | awk '{ print $2 }' 'FS=[ :]+'
    16  # awk: cmd. line:2: fatal: Trailing backslash: /[ :]+/
    17  # 
    18  # vsuse91:~ # awk --version
    19  # GNU Awk 3.1.3
    20  # 
    21  # 
    22  # 
    23  # But on my Debian machine all OK:
    24  # 
    25  # asashnov@sashnov:~$ echo "a:b:c" | awk '{ print $2 }' 'FS=[ :]'
    26  # b
    27  # asashnov@sashnov:~$ echo "a:b:c" | awk '{ print $2 }' 'FS=[ :]+'
    28  # b
    29  # asashnov@sashnov:~$ awk --version
    30  # GNU Awk 3.1.4
    31  # 
    32  # 
    33  # Need add test for this sample to gawk test suite for avoid this problems in future.
    34  # -- 
    35  # Alexander Sashnov
    36  # Plesk QA Engineer
    37  # SWsoft, Inc.
    38  # E-mail: asashnov@sw-soft.com
    39  # ICQ UIN: 79404252
    40  
    41  BEGIN { FS = "[ :]+" }
    42  { print $2 }