Merge branch 'master' into feature/fix-comments

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 83b675ea..6eb9c322 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 	record; this enables correct counting of the number of fields.
 	(set_FIELDWIDTHS): Add `*' at end as meaning ``all the rest
 	of the data on the line.'' Allow skip:* as well.
+	* NEWS: Update information about FIELDWIDTHS.
 
 2017-05-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2503f5f8..c1737d92 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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