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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2015-04-07 18:39:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2015-04-07 18:39:04 +0300 |
| commit | c3da76a825a0dcf14af22948b8bc1fd23e329ee0 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index d2d4107d..156208c3 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -7891,6 +7891,11 @@ contain at least one character. A straightforward modification FPAT = "([^,]*)|(\"[^\"]+\")" @end example +@c FIXME: 4/2015 +@c Consider use of FPAT = "([^,]*)|(\"[^\"]*\")" +@c (star in latter part of value) to allow quoted strings to be empty. +@c Per email from Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net> + Finally, the @code{patsplit()} function makes the same functionality available for splitting regular strings (@pxref{String Functions}). |