substr() strange behaviour

[dpedro]

Hi there.
Does anyone have explanation to following awk behaviour?
Fragment of my code:

print( "value root: " $0);
print("substr: " substr($0 ,3));

awk prints:

value root: ="1177" platform="3" producer="9" wap="true"
substr: false" id="1177" platform="3" producer="9"

OS is Linux Fedora Core 6. GAWK v. 3.1.5

What is strange too, this works fine on Windows version of GNU gawk.

 

[feherke]

Hi

And what is the input ?

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[dpedro]

in short input was:

<phone artificial="false" id="1177" platform="3" producer="9" wap="true">
<name>Asus M530w</name>
<identifier>M530w</identifier>
<info>Asus M530w</info>
<ua>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 6.12) ASUSM530w/1.0</ua>
</phone>

I was trying to parse whole xml with Steve Colie's parser (ftp://ftp.freefriends.org/arnold/Awkstuff/xmlparser.awk). Seems like this behaviour occurs only in gawk 3.1.5, as with newer versions everything seems ok.

Thanks anyway

 

[Annihilannic]

Perhaps windows line endings in the XML file?

Annihilannic.