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From: arnold@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Re: gawk bug?
Message-ID: <4267@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 89 16:39:21 GMT
References: <890810-084721-6771@Xerox>
Reply-To: arnold@emory.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Math and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta GA
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In article <890810-084721-6771@Xerox> Leisner.Henr@XEROX.COM (Marty) writes:
>RLENGTH -1 works differently than RLENGTH - 1.

This is a gawk bug; in the former case gawk thought it had a concatenation.
It should be fixed in 2.11.
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