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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2017-05-23 05:50:05 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2017-05-23 05:50:05 +0300 |
| commit | 38f2c2b262c1329dd3c4919f027c5185f24fab0e (patch) | |
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Update NEWS with info about FIELDWIDTHS.
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@@ -105,7 +105,11 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0 from UTC instead of from the local timezone. 26. The FIELDWIDTHS parsing syntax has been enhanced to allow specifying - how many characters to skip before a field starts. + how many characters to skip before a field starts. It also allows + specifying '*' as the last character to mean "the rest of the record". + Field splitting with FIELDWIDTHS now sets NF correctly. The documentation + for FIELDWIDTHS in the manual has been considerably reorganized and + improved as well. 27. An API input parser now has the ability to override the default field parsing mechanism by specifying the locations of each field in the input |