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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: busybox awk array length bug
From:       John Spencer <maillist-busybox () barfooze ! de>
Date:       2013-08-04 20:58:19
Message-ID: 51FEC06B.3080001 () barfooze ! de
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On 08/04/2013 09:18 PM, Alain Mouette wrote:
> Someething strange...
> On my machine, Debian, I get:
>
> $ awk 'BEGIN{ A[1]=2; print length(A)}'
> awk: line 1: illegal reference to array A
>

this happens with ancient versions of gawk,
for example GNU Awk 3.1.2.

more recentish ones return 1:

~ $ gawk 'BEGIN{ A[1]=2; print length(A)}'
1
~ $ gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.6

same for 4.0.0.
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