JohnNilsson
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10 years ago Turns out it's not the equal thing at all that is at fault. It's that the first / got interpreted as a division operator. Fix coming shortly.
Sorry for not responding sooner. The issue got lost in the depths of my inbox :/
I just found out today that you could make awk files, I was under the impression that it was for inline type of usage. So hopefully I can give useful feedback. It is the backslash, alpha, equal, backslash combination that is causing the problem. /a=/
The specific case for the code I am working on was: sub (/primary=/, "", primary_name);