Merge branch 'gawk-4.1-stable' into feature/zOS-try2

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/field.c b/field.c
index 6a7c6b1d..ed310984 100644
--- a/field.c
+++ b/field.c
@@ -1598,9 +1598,8 @@ fpat_parse_field(long up_to,	/* parse only up to this field number */
 
 	if (in_middle) {
 		regex_flags |= RE_NO_BOL;
-		non_empty = rp->non_empty;
-	} else
-		non_empty = false;
+	}
+	non_empty = rp->non_empty;
 
 	eosflag = false;
 	need_to_set_sep = true;