1#Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 17:42:20 +0200 2#From: Iva Cabric <ivac@fly.srk.fer.hr> 3#To: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org 4#Cc: arnold@gnu.org 5#Subject: Problem in gawk with match 6# 7#Hello, 8# 9#gawk reports fatal error in match when first character in regexp is "=" : 10# 11#$ gawk '{ where = match($0, /=a/); print where}' 12#gawk: cmd. line:1: { where = match($0, /=a/); print where} 13#gawk: cmd. line:1: ^ parse error 14#gawk: cmd. line:1: fatal: match() cannot have 0 arguments 15# 16#Using "\=" instead "=" works without problems : 17# 18#$ gawk '{ where = match($0, /\=a/); print where}' 19#sdgfa 20#0 21#asdfds=a 22#7 23# 24#Other versions of awk have no problems with "/=/" (except oawk on SunOS). 25# 26#-- 27# @ 28# 29{ where = match($0, /=a/); print where} 30