0003864: busybox awk: missing gawk extension "length(array)"

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0003864

[BusyBox] New Features

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06-26-08 06:47

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manfred99

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BusyBox

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normal

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open

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Summary

0003864: busybox awk: missing gawk extension "length(array)"

Description

as of gawk 3.1.5, the builtin function length() can be applied to arrays
and returns the number of array elements, e.g.

# gawk 'BEGIN { split("1 2 3",a); print length(a) }'
3

busybox awk does not yet support this feature and returns "0".

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
06-26-08 06:47	manfred99	New Issue
06-26-08 06:47	manfred99	Status	new => assigned
06-26-08 06:47	manfred99	Assigned To	=> BusyBox