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authorChip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>1997-03-07 03:48:20 +1200
committerChip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>1997-04-09 00:00:00 +0000
commita5571d593ac90d11dc2015dcb1d4f62bc0d28a6d (patch)
tree36d5c91e1099c5f6252ddad12663f2a81aa8a8d2 /x2p/a2p.pod
parent8b6a6e55c8aee2cca22dc5eb0d7dfb73f878584c (diff)
downloadperl-a5571d593ac90d11dc2015dcb1d4f62bc0d28a6d.tar.gz
Add B<-o> option to a2p, for old awk; make new the default
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diff --git a/x2p/a2p.pod b/x2p/a2p.pod
index 06c5ac7322..fa726fb101 100644
--- a/x2p/a2p.pod
+++ b/x2p/a2p.pod
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ Any delimiter can be used to separate the field names.
causes a2p to assume that input will always have that many fields.
+=item B<-o>
+
+tells a2p to use old awk behavior. For now, the only difference is
+that old awk always has a line loop, even if there are no line
+actions, whereas new awk does not.
+
=back
=head2 "Considerations"