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bin/42320: LC_NUMERIC in awk is not POSIX compliant
>Number: 42320
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: LC_NUMERIC in awk is not POSIX compliant
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Nov 15 11:20:00 +0000 2009
>Originator: Alexander Nasonov
>Release: NetBSD 5.99.22
>Organization:
>Environment:
$ uname -a
NetBSD aa1nb.lan 5.99.22 NetBSD 5.99.22 (MONOLITHIC) #0: Sat Nov 14 16:49:42
GMT 2009
root%aa1nb.lan@localhost:/home/alnsn/src/netbsd-current/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/obj/MONOLITHIC
i386
>Description:
awk doesn't recognise the period character if ${LC_NUMERIC} is a locale with
comma decimal-point character. There is a special case in POSIX specs for this
situation:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7990989775/xcu/awk.html
LC_NUMERIC
Determine the radix character used when interpreting numeric input,
performing conversions between numeric and string values and formatting numeric
output. Regardless of locale, the period character (the decimal-point character
of the POSIX locale) is the decimal-point character recognised in processing
awk programs (including assignments in command-line arguments).
>How-To-Repeat:
$ LC_NUMERIC=ru_RU.KOI8-R /usr/bin/awk '{print 0.01}'
/usr/bin/awk: syntax error at source line 1
context is
{print >>> 0.01 <<<
/usr/bin/awk: illegal statement at source line 1
>Fix:
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