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@@ -7718,7 +7718,8 @@ Many CSV files are imported from systems where the line terminator
for text files is a carriage-return--line-feed pair
(CR-LF, @samp{\r} followed by @samp{\n}).
For ease of use, when processing CSV files, @command{gawk} simply
-strips out any carriage-return characters in the input.
+includes the carriage-return character in the record terminator
+when it occurs immediately prior to a line-feed character in the input.
@end sidebar
The behavior of the @code{split()} function (not formally discussed