no - as Aharon Robbins pointed out (and X/Open): substr(s, m[, n ]) Return the at most n-character substring of s that begins at position m, numbering from 1. If n is omitted, or if n specifies more characters than are left in the string, the length of the substring shall be limited by the length of the string s.
That's undefined behavior. It would be nice to match behavior in various aspects which aren't documented, and fall outside the standard. But that's a wishlist item rather than a bug. -- String indexes are inconsistent with other awks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
