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Re: length in gawk returns wrong value
Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
> Uh oh. 1.7.9 is old. Please update.
>
> > 0000000 R 374 c k e n \r \n
> > 0000010
> > Length: 1
> >
> > What can I do to get the correct length in gawk without changing
> > ttt.txt?
>
> Dunno. This is not what I see. What did you have $LANG and $LC_CTYPE
> set to? Here's what I see:
>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 vmbert7 1.7.16(0.261/5/3) 2012-07-09 14:51 i686 Cygwin
>
> $ echo $LANG
> C.UTF-8
>
> $ echo "RÃcken" > ttt.txt
> $ od -c ttt.txt
> 0000000 R 303 274 c k e n \n
> 0000010
>
> $ gawk '{print "Length: " length($0)}' ttt.txt
> Length: 6
>
> $ gawk --version | head -1
> GNU Awk 4.0.1
>
> Corinna
>
After updating I added following lines on top of my script:
export LANG=C.UTF-8
echo LANG: $LANG
echo LC_CTYPE: $LC_TYPE
c:/unix/bin/gawk --version | head -1
And this is my output:
LANG: C.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE:
GNU Awk 4.0.1
CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 WIESWEG 1.7.15(0.260/5/3) 2012-05-09 10:25 i686 Cygwin
0000000 R 374 c k e n \r \n
0000010
Length: 5
Very strange!
But after adding
export LC_CTYPE=C
I got the correct result.
Thanks for your quick help!
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