severity 393066 normal
close 393066
thanks
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:01:32PM +0200, Bernd Warken wrote:
>The `print' command in `awk' adds automatically a `\n' at the end. `a2p'
>translates it just in a Perl `print' without adding a `\n'.
awk print output is followed by the value of ORS (newline by default).
perl print output is followed by the value of $\ , which a2p sets
initially to "\n".
$ awk -F: '$3 == 0 { print $1 }' /etc/passwd
root
$ echo '$3 == 0 { print $1 }' | a2p -F: | perl - /etc/passwd
root
The trivial example above works fine and a trailing newline is produced
in both cases.
a2p is not intended to produce a perfect machine-translation of awk code
to perl (please see the manual page under "Considerations"). You may
need to modify the output.
>Severity: grave
>Justification: renders package unusable
While a2p may not be behaving as you expect, this does not render the
perl package unusable.
--bod
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