[tz] CRLF terminated leap-seconds.list fix

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis at SystematicSw.ab.ca
Sat Jul 27 19:39:32 UTC 2019


On 2019-07-26 23:47, Chris Woodbury via tz wrote:
> NIST has yet again generated a leap-seconds.list file with CRLF line
> terminations. If the file is transferred in FTP binary mode and used, it
> breaks leapseconds.awk.
> Using int() around the last column variable eliminates this problem.
> Therefore, I propose the attached patch.

A clearer, more awkish, idiomatic approach would be to add a BEGIN rule which
prefixes the record separator RS with (an) optional return(s):

	BEGIN { RS = "\r?\n" }
OR
	BEGIN { RS = "\r*\n" }

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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