diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 59d4b07..3cf5002 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2019-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+	* run.c (awkgetline): Check for numeric value in all getline
+	variants. See the numeric-getline.* files in bugs-fixed directory.
+
 2018-08-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>
 
 	* REGRESS: Check for existence of a.out. If not there, run
diff --git a/bugs-fixed/README b/bugs-fixed/README
index 9c644f9..2f27c10 100644
--- a/bugs-fixed/README
+++ b/bugs-fixed/README
@@ -51,4 +51,7 @@ array passed as the second argument, then split() would previously read
 from the freed memory and possibly produce incorrect results (depending
 on the system's malloc()/free() behaviour.)
 
-
+15. getline-numeric: The `getline xx < file' syntax did not check if
+values were numeric, in discordance from POSIX. Test case adapted from
+one posted by Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> in comp.lang.awk,
+January 2019.
diff --git a/bugs-fixed/getline-numeric.awk b/bugs-fixed/getline-numeric.awk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5571a95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bugs-fixed/getline-numeric.awk
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+    print $0, ($0 <= 50 ? "<=" : ">"), 50
+    getline dd < ARGV[1]
+    print dd, (dd <= 50 ? "<=" : ">"), 50
+    if (dd == $0) print "same"
+}
diff --git a/bugs-fixed/getline-numeric.bad b/bugs-fixed/getline-numeric.bad
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5247bfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bugs-fixed/getline-numeric.bad
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+120 > 50
+120 <= 50
+same
+120 > 50
+120 <= 50
+same
diff --git a/bugs-fixed/getline-numeric.in b/bugs-fixed/getline-numeric.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b635013
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bugs-fixed/getline-numeric.in
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+120
+120
diff --git a/bugs-fixed/getline-numeric.ok b/bugs-fixed/getline-numeric.ok
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..901a4d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bugs-fixed/getline-numeric.ok
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+120 > 50
+120 > 50
+same
+120 > 50
+120 > 50
+same
diff --git a/run.c b/run.c
index ce30e93..2dfb3e6 100644
--- a/run.c
+++ b/run.c
@@ -425,6 +425,10 @@ Cell *awkgetline(Node **a, int n)	/* get next line from specific input */
 		} else if (a[0] != NULL) {	/* getline var <file */
 			x = execute(a[0]);
 			setsval(x, buf);
+			if (is_number(x->sval)) {
+				x->fval = atof(x->sval);
+				x->tval |= NUM;
+			}
 			tempfree(x);
 		} else {			/* getline <file */
 			setsval(fldtab[0], buf);
@@ -440,6 +444,10 @@ Cell *awkgetline(Node **a, int n)	/* get next line from specific input */
 			n = getrec(&buf, &bufsize, 0);
 			x = execute(a[0]);
 			setsval(x, buf);
+			if (is_number(x->sval)) {
+				x->fval = atof(x->sval);
+				x->tval |= NUM;
+			}
 			tempfree(x);
 		}
 	}