X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:21:39 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: awk gsub problem Message-ID: <20100918092139.GE14602@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20100916092458.GB15121@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Sep 17 22:30, Lee wrote: > On 9/16/10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Sep 15 18:30, Lee wrote: > >> I don't know if this is just a problem with the cygwin version of awk, > >> me misunderstanding something or what, but it looks like gsub isn't > >> working correctly in awk: > >> $ sh /tmp/test.awk > >> s= ::0:: should = ::S0:: > >> > >> $ cat /tmp/test.awk > >> awk ' > >> BEGIN { > >> s="Serial0" > >> gsub("[a-z]","",s) > >> printf("s= ::%s:: should = ::S0::\n", s) > >> exit > >> } ' > >> > >> I also tried it with IGNORECASE=0 and with "awk --traditional" - same > >> results. > > Works fine for me: > > Comment out the 'set LANG=" and gsub works fine: > $ echo $LANG > C.UTF-8 > > $ sh /tmp/test.awk > s= ::S0:: should = ::S0:: > > $ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > $ sh /tmp/test.awk > s= ::0:: should = ::S0:: > > So awk gsub works for me again - thank you! > > Just out of curiosity, why would setting LANG to en_US break > case-sensitivity in gsub? I don't know either. I just asked the upstream maintainer. At least it isn't a Cygwin problem, since it also behaves the same on Linux. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple