On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:40:01AM +0200, alex bodnaru wrote:
> Package: gawk
> Version: 1:4.0.1+dfsg-2.1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
Dear Alex,
> thank you for maintaining this package.
>
> wishing to make a filter in the bluefish editor, i turned to awk.
> i needed to perform a matchall equivalent, so split/patsplit were chosen.
> the gawk man says "patsplit(s, a [, r [, seps] ])" the sepatator matches
> would be in the last param, as with split.
> in reality, for patsplit they were switched, as opposed to split,
> where they matched the man.
> i don't know which of them: the man or the program is to be fixed.
first of all apologies for the late reply.
Perhaps I am missing something, but it seems to work for me:
$ echo 'foo,bar.baz' | awk '{n = patsplit($0,a,/[^,|.]*/,b); for(i=1;i<=n;i++)
print a[i] " " b[i]}'
foo ,
bar .
baz
$
> thanks again,
> alex
cu
Adrian
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