From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: DJGPP gawk peculiarity
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 19:52:26 -0600
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One of my coworkers showed me a peculiar behavior of the DJGPP awk:

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C:\TEMP> cat junk
123 456

C:\> awk 'length($1) < 2 {print $1}' junk
123
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What am I missing here?

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Weiqi Gao
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