1.3.1: printf bug in awk?
Troy Noble
troy.noble@channelpoint.com
Wed Nov 7 09:39:00 GMT 2001
Seems like a gawk bug, not specific to cygwin. I get the
same result with gawk 3.0.4 on Linux and Solaris:
bash-2.04$ awk 'BEGIN {printf "%10.0f\n",3.14; exit}'
0000000003
Seems to be fixed in gawk-3.1.0 at least. I just downloaded and
built it with latest cygwin and I get:
.../gawk-3.1.0$ ./gawk.exe 'BEGIN {printf "%10.0g\n",3.14; exit}'
3
Perhaps you could convince the cygwin gawk package maintainer to
update to 3.1.0. But in the meantime, you can compile 3.1.0 yourself
to work around the problem. If you've done a full cygwin install,
it's literally as simple as download and then ./configure ; make
Troy
-----Original Message-----
From: Morten Nygaard Aasnes [ mailto:mortenn@imr.no ]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 9:53 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: 1.3.1: printf bug in awk?
There seems to be a bug in GNU Awk 3.0.4 comming with Cygwin 1.3.4.
Using printf with precision 0, it fills with zeros instead of spaces.
$ awk 'BEGIN {printf "%10.0f\n",3.14; exit}'
0000000003
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snes
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