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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:20:40 +1100 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: awk bug? in 2.2 BETA?
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On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, John Utz wrote:

> Hello;
> 
> 	could an awk literate person comment on this ? The behavior on the
> follwing line of code appears to be awk version related. a linux guy
> running 3.0 patch 0 gets a correct answer, my freebsd 2.2 BETA awk 2.15p5
> does not.
> 
> mira: {60} cat fd1.dat | awk 'BEGIN { FS = " " }; END { printf "rf= %g; cf
> = %g\n;", NR, NF }'
> 
> rf= 9801; cf = 0;
> 
> cf should be 3!

I'm not sure but wouldn't cf report the number of colums in the END 
record, i.e. 0.

Try the code below.

> mira: {60} cat fd1.dat | \
awk 'BEGIN { FS = " " }; { if ( cf > c ){ c = cf }}; END { printf "rf= %g; cf
 = %g\n;", NR, NF }'

Danny