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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2015-05-12 14:52:43 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2015-05-12 14:52:43 +0300 |
| commit | 5603143c58035b91f91ee31ab548b9b996156760 (patch) | |
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Update NEWS for typed regexp constants and typeof.
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@@ -48,9 +48,18 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0 11. Gawk now supports retryable I/O via PROCINFO[input-file, "RETRY"]; see the manual. -12. The API minor version has been increased to two; the get_file() +12. The API minor version has been increased to 2; the get_file() API provides access to open redirections. Also see the manual. +13. Gawk now supports strongly typed regexp constants. Such constants + look like @/.../. You can assign them to variables, pass them to + functions, use them in ~, !~ and the case part of a switch statement. + More details are provided in the manual. + +14. The new typeof() function can be used to indicate if a variable or + array element is an array, regexp, string or number. The isarray() + function is deprecated in favor of typeof(). + Changes from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 --------------------------- |