Re: [9fans] awk

[Kenji Arisawa <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>]

Hello,

I said:
> I tested some awk string functions to examine if
> they can handle UFT-8 code well.
> The bollow is my text code:
> #!/bin/rc
> #
> #	Can awk function handle UTF strings ?
> #
> echo 'ベル:研究所' | awk '{
> print $0	# ベル:研究所
> print length($0)	# 6
> print index($0,":")	# 3
> print match($0,":.*"),RSTART, RLENGTH	# 7	7 4
> print substr($0,3)	# :研究所
> a=$0; sub(":.+", "alice", a); print a	# ベルalice
> }'
>
> Output is commented after `#' in each line.
> Function `match' returns byte position that is inconsitent
> with others. I believe this is a bug.
>
It seems this bug is fixed in recent update.
Thanks.

Kenji Arisawa