Re: test suite data

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Howard Chu wrote:
> > (all as a single line of text)
> >
> > Unfortunately the asort() function is a GNU extension, so I think we 
> > have to
> > pipe to the sort command instead:
> >
> > grep -v '^#' | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\n";RS=""}{j=0; for (i=1; i<=NF; i++){ 
> > if ($i ~
> > /^ /) { x[j] = x[j] "\n" $i; } else { j++; x[j] = $i }} print x[1]; 
> > for (i=2;
> > i<=j; i++){print x[i] | "sort +0";} delete x; close("sort +0"); print 
> > ""}'
>
> Oops. Except piping to sort loses the field boundaries, so continuation 
> lines are messed up.

Frankly I ask myself why bothering with such a mess? I know it's hard to 
introduce another binary dependency but I'd recommend to use a decent 
(readable) scripting language. Because having to maintain code like the 
example above will hold people back from writing detailed tests.

Ciao, Michael.