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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index ba2b5bcc..fbf0e8d2 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -7884,6 +7884,11 @@ 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}). |