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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2018-11-26 20:53:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2018-11-26 20:53:35 +0200 |
| commit | 6e786c0622d9afd845ff56ac83c6bc9726dbe230 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c4894d35e2da7671750de7cac845471f1fa4728 /doc/gawk.1 | |
| parent | 868a694807f0b0a617a47648910a7004b2b9ff97 (diff) | |
| parent | 7eac08335f61dc6b0f236f9bf7c3ad434576b70f (diff) | |
| download | gawk-6e786c0622d9afd845ff56ac83c6bc9726dbe230.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'gawk-4.2-stable'
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/gawk.1')
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ . if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq . \} .\} -.TH GAWK 1 "Apr 08 2018" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" +.TH GAWK 1 "Nov 26 2018" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" .SH NAME gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -3053,7 +3053,7 @@ is the possibly null separator that appeared after The value of .B seps[0] is the possibly null leading separator. -\&\fRIf +If .I r is omitted, .B FPAT @@ -3093,7 +3093,7 @@ between .BI a[ i ] and .BI a[ i +1]\fR. -\&\fRIf +If .I r is a single space, then leading whitespace in .I s @@ -3106,6 +3106,10 @@ where is the return value of .BI split( s ", " a ", " r ", " seps )\fR. Splitting behaves identically to field splitting, described above. +In particular, if +.I r +is a single-character string, that string acts as the separator, +even if it happens to be a regular expression metacharacter. .TP .BI sprintf( fmt , " expr-list" ) Print |