(find_field): Don't count trailing newline to be

part of the field.  This disagrees with POSIX.2, but it's
gotta be a bug in the standard.  An interpretations request
has been submitted to PASC.

diff --git a/src/uniq.c b/src/uniq.c
index f46bdaa52c4abe710749b677a97c17eaa6acbf23..42f33a2064f2f92b487e367a263895d49d95b3b6 100644 (file)
--- a/src/uniq.c
+++ b/src/uniq.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ find_field (const struct linebuffer *line)
 {
   register int count;
   register char *lp = line->buffer;
-  register size_t size = line->length;
+  register size_t size = line->length - 1;
   register size_t i = 0;
 
   for (count = 0; count < skip_fields && i < size; count++)