github benhoyt/goawk v1.2.0
Version 1.2.0

latest releases: v1.29.0, v1.28.1, v1.28.0...
5 years ago

Fix a number of issues found by running (most of) the gawk test suite.

There are still a number of skipped GAWK tests (work to do), and some of GoAWK's behavior doesn't and won't ever match GAWK's 100%. I've gone for the POSIX behavior in most cases.

The full list of changes to GoAWK is:

  • Support additional POSIX escape sequences in string literals:
    \a \b \f \v \xhh (hex) \ooo (octal)
  • Fix close() to allow reopening a file after it's been closed
  • Make sub/gsub backslash handling per POSIX
  • Fix bug in RS="" handling:
    • when input is just newlines
    • when there are newlines at the start of the last record
  • Add support for ' ' (space) printf flag
  • Add parser/resolver errors for:
    • can't use function name as a parameter
    • global var %q can't also be a function
    • can't call local variable %q as function
    • duplicate parameter name %q
  • Treat FS of a single backslash as regex \\ (as other AWKs do)

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