Hi,

I found two (semantically related) bugs. One seems to originate in the first version. For research purposes, I would appreciate if you could confirm that the second was introduced with Coreutils 5.3.0.

1) The following bug seems to exists "since the beginning".

$echo 1234567890 | ./cut -b 2-,3,4-4,5,9-
3590
$echo 1234567890 | ./cut -b 2-,3,4-4,5,9-10
234567890

$echo 1234567890 | ./cut -b 2-10,3,4-4,5,9-
234567890

2) Can you kindly confirm that the following bug has been introduced with Coreutils 5.3.0, particularly commit http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=7380cf792aa35b9328519c5f374036d5260704cb ?

$echo 1234567890 | ./cut -b 2-,3,4-4,5 --output-delimiter="."
2.34.567890

$echo 1234567890 | ./cut -b 2-10,3,4-4,5 --output-delimiter="."
234567890

Best regards,

 Marcel