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Date:      28 Feb 2002 04:59:56 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/one-true-awk - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <xzpr8n68ddv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <200202280333.g1S3Xmf47324@green.bikeshed.org>
References:  <200202280333.g1S3Xmf47324@green.bikeshed.org>

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"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Is there something unexpected about empty regexps?

One-true-awk considers the following an error:

awk '// {
    do_something();
}'

the solution is to either use the following (equivalent) code:

awk '{
    do_something();
}'

or apply a simple patch to One-true-awk to make it accept empty
regexps.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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