Ubuntu
gawk package

backreference gawk broken

Bug #2000741 reported by Eduard Drenth on 2022-12-29

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gawk (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

eduard@eduard-N150CU:~$ echo "ab"|gawk '{gsub(/(a)(b)/,"\2\1"); print}'

eduard@eduard-N150CU:~$

This should print ba

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Eduard Drenth (eduarddrenth) wrote on 2022-12-29:

Or actually this should print ba according to the awk manual:

eduard@eduard-N150CU:~$ echo "ab"|gawk '{gsub(/(a)(b)/,"\\2\\1"); print}'
\2\1

Tobias Frost (coldtobi) on 2023-02-28

affects:

gnome-shell-pomodoro (Ubuntu) → gawk (Ubuntu)

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