Re: One True AWK bug?

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I noticed in this one-liner if the conditional in the print statement
below lacks parentheses it produces and "illegal statement" error:
>
--
$ printf 'foo\n\nbar\n' |nawk '{print $0 != "" ? $0 : "[blank]"}'
nawk: syntax error at source line 1
context is
       {print $0 >>>  != <<<
nawk: illegal statement at source line 1
nawk: illegal statement at source line 1
--
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Just a followup: this got submitted as a open issue (#233) on the project
page and there is a patch available that provides a working fix which makes
nawk match mawk and gawk.

Appologies for the original post; I wasn't aware that it's more or less
the gawk project folks maintaining The One True Awk code and I know not
to post gawk bugs here.

-j