Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:57:02 -0400 From: "Peter C. Lai" <peter@simons-rock.edu> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: is there a bug in AWK on 6.x and 7.x (fixed in 8.x)? Message-ID: <20101004155702.GH70616@cesium.hyperfine.info> In-Reply-To: <4CA78EE3.9020005@quip.cz> References: <4CA78EE3.9020005@quip.cz>
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Is this becuase the behavior of "FS=" was changed to match the behavior
of awk -F
On 2010-10-02 09:58:27PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> I think there is a bug in AWK in base of FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x (tested on
> 6.4 i386 and 7.3 i386)
>
> I have this simple test case, where I want 2 columns from GeoIP CSV file:
>
> awk 'FS="," { print $1"-"$2 }' GeoIPCountryWhois.csv
>
> It should produce output like this:
>
> # awk 'FS="," { print $1"-"$2 }' GeoIPCountryWhois.csv | head -n 5
> "1.0.0.0"-"1.7.255.255"
> "1.9.0.0"-"1.9.255.255"
> "1.10.10.0"-"1.10.10.255"
> "1.11.0.0"-"1.11.255.255"
> "1.12.0.0"-"1.15.255.255"
>
> (above is taken from FreeBSD 8.1 i386)
>
> On FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.3 it results in broken first line:
>
> awk 'FS="," { print $1"-"$2 }' GeoIPCountryWhois.csv | head -n 5
> "1.0.0.0","1.7.255.255","16777216","17301503","AU","Australia"-
> "1.9.0.0"-"1.9.255.255"
> "1.10.10.0"-"1.10.10.255"
> "1.11.0.0"-"1.11.255.255"
> "1.12.0.0"-"1.15.255.255"
>
> There are no errors in CSV file, it doesn't metter if I delete the
> affected first line from the file.
>
> It is reproducible with handmade file:
>
> # cat test.csv
> "1.9.0.0","1.9.255.255","17367040","17432575","MY","Malaysia"
> "1.10.10.0","1.10.10.255","17435136","17435391","AU","Australia"
> "1.11.0.0","1.11.255.255","17498112","17563647","KR","Korea, Republic of"
> "1.12.0.0","1.15.255.255","17563648","17825791","CN","China"
> "1.16.0.0","1.19.255.255","17825792","18087935","KR","Korea, Republic of"
> "1.21.0.0","1.21.255.255","18153472","18219007","JP","Japan"
>
>
> # awk 'FS="," { print $1"-"$2 }' test.csv
> "1.9.0.0","1.9.255.255","17367040","17432575","MY","Malaysia"-
> "1.10.10.0"-"1.10.10.255"
> "1.11.0.0"-"1.11.255.255"
> "1.12.0.0"-"1.15.255.255"
> "1.16.0.0"-"1.19.255.255"
> "1.21.0.0"-"1.21.255.255"
>
>
> As it works in 8.1, can it be fixed in 7-STABLE?
> (I don't know if it was purposely fixed or if it is coincidence of newer
> version of AWK in 8.x)
>
> Should I file PR for it?
>
> Miroslav Lachman
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