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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 40c85a81..b8fcff00 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -6905,22 +6905,6 @@ character in the value of @code{RS} has no special effect: it is treated literally. This is required for backwards compatibility with both Unix @command{awk} and with POSIX. -When using regular characters as the record separator, -there is one unusual case that occurs when @command{gawk} is -being fully POSIX-compliant (@pxref{Options}). -Then, the following (extreme) pipeline prints a surprising @samp{1}: - -@example -$ @kbd{echo | gawk --posix 'BEGIN @{ RS = "a" @} ; @{ print NF @}'} -@print{} 1 -@end example - -There is one field, consisting of a newline. The value of the built-in -variable @code{NF} is the number of fields in the current record. -(In the normal case, @command{gawk} treats the newline as whitespace, -printing @samp{0} as the result. Most other versions of @command{awk} -also act this way.) - @cindex dark corner @subentry input files Reaching the end of an input file terminates the current input record, even if the last character in the file is not the character in @code{RS}. |