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From: quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Unexpected parsing error in Gawk
Message-ID: <1989Oct2.222916.4588@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 2 Oct 89 22:29:16 GMT
Reply-To: quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz)
Organization: U of Rochester, Dept. of Computer Science, Rochester, NY 14627
Lines: 37
Summary: Gnu Awk (gawk) 2.10beta 07 Apr 1989

Consider the line marked `*' in this program:

    gawk '
    BEGIN                       {   inleader=1; trailers=0  }
    /^[ \t]*$/ && inleader      {   next }
    inleader                    {   inleader = 0; print; next }
*   !inleader && /^[ \t]*$/     {   trailers++; next }
    !inleader                   {   for (i=0; i