Package: gawk
Version: 1:3.1.5.dfsg-4
Severity: important
The following calls to match return bad RLENGTH values:
$ echo 'b' | awk '{print match($0,"a*"); print RSTART,RLENGTH}'
1
1 18
was expecting RLENGTH=0
$ echo 'ba' | awk '{print match($0,"a*"); print RSTART,RLENGTH}'
1
1 18
was expecting RLENGTH=0
The following returns the expected result:
$ echo 'b' | awk '{print match($0,"a"); print RSTART,RLENGTH}'
0
0 -1
$ echo 'a' | awk '{print match($0,"a*"); print RSTART,RLENGTH}'
1
1 1
$ echo 'aa' | awk '{print match($0,"a*"); print RSTART,RLENGTH}'
1
1 2
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages gawk depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
gawk recommends no packages.
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