awk: make -F STR interpret escape sequences. Closes 5126

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/testsuite/awk.tests b/testsuite/awk.tests
index e67190757..d4c390d31 100755
--- a/testsuite/awk.tests
+++ b/testsuite/awk.tests
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ testing "awk long field sep" "awk -F-- '{ print NF, length(\$NF), \$NF }'" \
         "" \
         "a--\na--b--\na--b--c--\na--b--c--d--"
 
+testing "awk -F handles escapes" "awk -F'\\x21' '{print \$1}'" \
+        "a\n" \
+        "" \
+        "a!b\n"
+
 # '@(samp|code|file)\{' is an invalid extended regex (unmatched '{'),
 # but gawk 3.1.5 does not bail out on it.
 testing "awk gsub falls back to non-extended-regex" \