aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/gawk.texinfo
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2010-07-16 11:58:26 +0300
committerArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2010-07-16 11:58:26 +0300
commit765c7494b3dac62207e6cd57fb839997e237f292 (patch)
treef7da12ffdb85d9f82671cb3122775b2ce73f7ad9 /gawk.texinfo
parentcce5115e21db1702e0617afdca36633e7e2c9eae (diff)
downloadegawk-765c7494b3dac62207e6cd57fb839997e237f292.tar.gz
egawk-765c7494b3dac62207e6cd57fb839997e237f292.tar.bz2
egawk-765c7494b3dac62207e6cd57fb839997e237f292.zip
Moving to 2.13.2.
Diffstat (limited to 'gawk.texinfo')
-rw-r--r--gawk.texinfo30
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/gawk.texinfo b/gawk.texinfo
index 84ba0da5..fda27951 100644
--- a/gawk.texinfo
+++ b/gawk.texinfo
@@ -3,8 +3,15 @@
@setfilename gawk-info
@settitle The GAWK Manual
@c %**end of header (This is for running Texinfo on a region.)
+
+@ifinfo
+@synindex fn cp
+@synindex vr cp
+@end ifinfo
+@iftex
@syncodeindex fn cp
@syncodeindex vr cp
+@end iftex
@iftex
@finalout
@@ -54,7 +61,7 @@ by the Foundation.
@center Paul H. Rubin
@center Richard Stallman
@sp 2
-@center Edition 0.11 Beta
+@center Edition 0.12 Beta
@sp 2
@center October 1989
@@ -66,7 +73,7 @@ by the Foundation.
Copyright @copyright{} 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@sp 2
-This is Edition 0.11 Beta of @cite{The GAWK Manual}, @*
+This is Edition 0.12 Beta of @cite{The GAWK Manual}, @*
for the 2.11.1 version of the GNU implementation @*
of AWK.
@@ -3512,9 +3519,9 @@ awk '! /foo/' BBS-list
@end example
Note that boolean patterns are a special case of expression patterns
-(@pxref{Expression Patterns}); they are expressions that use the boolean
-operators. For complete information on the boolean operators, see
-@ref{Boolean Ops}.
+(@pxref{Expression Patterns}); they are expressions that use the
+boolean operators. @xref{Boolean Ops}, for complete information on
+the boolean operators.
The subpatterns of a boolean pattern can be constant regular
expressions, comparisons, or any other @code{gawk} expressions. Range
@@ -3657,7 +3664,7 @@ action for these rules since there is no current record when they run.
An @code{awk} @dfn{program} or @dfn{script} consists of a series of
@dfn{rules} and function definitions, interspersed. (Functions are
-described later; see @ref{User-defined}.)
+described later. @xref{User-defined}.)
A rule contains a pattern and an @dfn{action}, either of which may be
omitted. The purpose of the action is to tell @code{awk} what to do
@@ -5500,7 +5507,7 @@ function @code{length}.
@example
# Record a 1 for each word that is used at least once.
@{
- for (i = 0; i < NF; i++)
+ for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++)
used[$i] = 1
@}
@@ -5857,6 +5864,15 @@ numbers that are truly unpredictable.
The return value of @code{srand} is the previous seed. This makes it
easy to keep track of the seeds for use in consistently reproducing
sequences of random numbers.
+
+@item time()
+The function @code{time} (not in all versions of @code{awk}) returns the
+current time in seconds since January 1, 1970.
+
+@item ctime(@var{then})
+The function @code{ctime} (not in all versions of @code{awk}) takes an numeric
+argument in seconds and returns a string representing the corresponding date,
+suitable for printing or further processing.
@end table
@node String Functions, I/O Functions, Numeric Functions, Built-in