printf("%c", 0) on AWK do nothing.
Katsuhiro Watanabe
katsu at srava.sra.JUNET
Fri Aug 18 12:48:05 AEST 1989
Hello, world.(I am a user of 4.3BSD on VAX)
Something wrong with `printf("%c",0)' on AWK of BSD.
n125:101%awk 'BEGIN{printf("%c",0);exit}' |wc
0 0 0
n125:102%awk 'BEGIN{printf("%c",1);exit}' |wc
0 0 1
I guess AWK uses sprintf().
thank you.
PS: It works fine on gawk.
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WATANABE Katsuhiro
Software Tools and Technology Division, SRA Inc., Japan.
Not compute f(x), but evaluate it.
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