is there a bug in AWK on 6.x and 7.x (fixed in 8.x)?

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 03/10/2010 08:18, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> On 02/10/2010 21:58, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>> I think there is a bug in AWK in base of FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x (tested on
>> 6.4 i386 and 7.3 i386)
>>
>> I have this simple test case, where I want 2 columns from GeoIP CSV file:
>>
>> awk 'FS="," { print $1"-"$2 }' GeoIPCountryWhois.csv
> 
> You know that with this syntax FS="," is treated as a condition to
> run the following block in angle brackets?

Sorry, I meant to say curly brackets.

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