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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 07:19:34 -0500
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On 12/19/2020 7:16 PM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 20.12.2020 um 00:34 schrieb Jason McGee via Cygwin:
>> I confirmed there is not a problem with my code by comparing Cygwin 
>> against Gawk for Windows.
>
> Your presentation of the problem is quite unclear, but the root cause 
> is almost certainly not in the code, but in the data.
>
> You're bound to be feeding Windows text files to a Unix tool.  You 
> need to reformat the file to Unix format.
>
I agree. The input likely has <cr><lf> line endings. Cygwin's gawk 
expects just <lf>, so the <cr> gets wrapped into the regular line text. 
Your ", 0" is not replacing the beginning of the line, it is 
overprinting it after the <cr>.


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