Re: bin/53507: awk doesn't properly compare "numeric strings"

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/53507; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: ks%ub.uni-mainz.de@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/53507: awk doesn't properly compare "numeric strings"
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 03:36:46 +0700

     Date:        Wed, 8 Aug 2018 20:43:47 +0200
     From:        "K. Schreiner" <ks%ub.uni-mainz.de@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20180808184346.GA1311%imac7.ub.uni-mainz.de@localhost>
 
   | ok, +0 was what I found in the manuals.
 
 Yes, that is the standard idiom, and the one that should be used
 (not least because the unary + variant does not work in our awk,
 and I believe, in some others).
 
 kre