The following commands manifests the problem. In old versions before commit 4762ae9d60 ("column: use libsmartcols for --table"), both of them should output with 2 "|" echo '||' | column -o '|' -s '|' -t echo '|| ' | column -o '|' -s '|' -t Fixes: 4762ae9d60 ("column: use libsmartcols for --table") Signed-off-by: Yousong Zhou <zhouyousong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx> --- v2 <- v1 Simplify the patch as suggested by @kerolaso. It seems that only local_wcstok() needs to be changed. tests/expected/column/table-empty-column-at-eol | 1 + tests/expected/column/table-empty-column-at-eol2 | 1 + tests/ts/column/table | 8 ++++++++ text-utils/column.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 tests/expected/column/table-empty-column-at-eol create mode 100644 tests/expected/column/table-empty-column-at-eol2 diff --git a/tests/expected/column/table-empty-column-at-eol b/tests/expected/column/table-empty-column-at-eol new file mode 100644 index 000000000..948cf947f --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/expected/column/table-empty-column-at-eol @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +| diff --git a/tests/expected/column/table-empty-column-at-eol2 b/tests/expected/column/table-empty-column-at-eol2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7c4378506 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/expected/column/table-empty-column-at-eol2 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +|| diff --git a/tests/ts/column/table b/tests/ts/column/table index bd1f16f3f..e64dee746 100755 --- a/tests/ts/column/table +++ b/tests/ts/column/table @@ -116,4 +116,12 @@ ts_init_subtest "empty-column" printf ':a:b\n' | $TS_CMD_COLUMN --table --separator ':' --output-separator ':' >> $TS_OUTPUT 2>&1 ts_finalize_subtest +ts_init_subtest "empty-column-at-eol" +printf '|' | $TS_CMD_COLUMN --separator '|' --output-separator '|' --table >> $TS_OUTPUT 2>&1 +ts_finalize_subtest + +ts_init_subtest "empty-column-at-eol2" +printf '||' | $TS_CMD_COLUMN --separator '|' --output-separator '|' --table >> $TS_OUTPUT 2>&1 +ts_finalize_subtest + ts_finalize diff --git a/text-utils/column.c b/text-utils/column.c index 13b39537e..9d56e514c 100644 --- a/text-utils/column.c +++ b/text-utils/column.c @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static wchar_t *local_wcstok(wchar_t *p, const wchar_t *separator, int greedy, w return strtok_r(p, separator, state); #endif if (!p) { - if (!*state || !**state) + if (!*state) return NULL; p = *state; }