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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 4d4b28c7..64d5c073 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2015-04-07 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Add a minor note to revisit FPAT pattern for CSV + files at some point. + 2015-04-05 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> * gawktexi.in: Replace http://gawkextlib.sourceforge.net with 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}). diff --git a/doc/gawktexi.in b/doc/gawktexi.in index 5fe53190..9a876ee6 100644 --- a/doc/gawktexi.in +++ b/doc/gawktexi.in @@ -7491,6 +7491,11 @@ 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}). |