This program run with GNU awk 4.1.4 (currently installed with Cygwin): awk ' BEGIN { OFMT="%.8g" buf = 1+0.1 buf = buf "a" print "Length before print:", length(buf) print buf " " print buf print buf " " print "Length after print:", length(buf) } '
produces the following output on our system: Length before print: 4 1.1a 1.1 1.1 Length after print: 3 so it appears that the "print buf" statement unexpectedly alters the content of buf. With awk 4.1.3, we got the expected output Length before print: 4 1.1a 1.1a 1.1a Length after print: 4 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple