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Re: standards/44063: awk: setting NF doesn't affect $<fieldnum>



cheusov%tut.by@localhost wrote:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/awk.html
> 
>     ...
>     References to nonexistent fields (that is, fields after $NF),
>     shall evaluate to the uninitialized value.
> 
> Now awk works like the following
> 
>     $ echo ' 1  2  3 ' | awk.orig '{NF=2; print "`" $3 "`"}'
>     `3`
>     $ echo ' 1  2  3 ' | awk.orig '{NF=2; print "`" $0 "`"}' 
>     ` 1  2  3 `
>     $
> 
Hi guys,
Can we add an atf test for this change (and the test from bin/42320
as well)?
Thanks,
Alex


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