On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 08:12:59PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 01:53:51AM +0200, Marek Rusinowski wrote:
> > In the newest version of mawk, the following invocation returns invalid
> > result:
> > 
> > $ mawk 'BEGIN { x = "asd "; sub(/ .*$/, "", x); print("|"x"|"); }'
> > |asd |
> 
> thanks - I can reproduce this
> (though puzzled how added and existing tests didn't show this regression)
> 
> I'll see how to fix (and add this case...)

fwiw, the regression came in the set of changes for this bug-fix:

https://github.com/ThomasDickey/original-mawk/issues/76

...which is about 100 lines modified.

I'll pick that apart and see how to fix both :-)

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Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net>
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