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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2018-11-26 22:02:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2018-11-26 22:02:21 +0200 |
| commit | dc9c45a6258d9ab495bcd6dc97992532d5a2b862 (patch) | |
| tree | 06081563ac8cbd14d5fcb8d4a98413801f8bcd65 /doc/gawk.1 | |
| parent | 1e6c88c44319694bfb2e9c0ca11db01ec670f0ad (diff) | |
| parent | 4d481023b2ff756dc8c77c66e6a4864f9c072007 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' into feature/fix-comments
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ . if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq . \} .\} -.TH GAWK 1 "Apr 08 2018" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" +.TH GAWK 1 "Nov 26 2018" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" .SH NAME gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -3053,7 +3053,7 @@ is the possibly null separator that appeared after The value of .B seps[0] is the possibly null leading separator. -\&\fRIf +If .I r is omitted, .B FPAT @@ -3093,7 +3093,7 @@ between .BI a[ i ] and .BI a[ i +1]\fR. -\&\fRIf +If .I r is a single space, then leading whitespace in .I s @@ -3106,6 +3106,10 @@ where is the return value of .BI split( s ", " a ", " r ", " seps )\fR. Splitting behaves identically to field splitting, described above. +In particular, if +.I r +is a single-character string, that string acts as the separator, +even if it happens to be a regular expression metacharacter. .TP .BI sprintf( fmt , " expr-list" ) Print |