From 7eac08335f61dc6b0f236f9bf7c3ad434576b70f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Arnold D. Robbins" <arnold@skeeve.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:46:03 +0200
Subject: Doc update on split().

---
 doc/gawk.1 | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/gawk.1')

diff --git a/doc/gawk.1 b/doc/gawk.1
index a2448695..7bcef9d6 100644
--- a/doc/gawk.1
+++ b/doc/gawk.1
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 .		if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq
 .	\}
 .\}
-.TH GAWK 1 "Apr 08 2018" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
+.TH GAWK 1 "Nov 26 2018" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
 .SH NAME
 gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -3031,7 +3031,7 @@ is the possibly null separator that appeared after
 The value of
 .B seps[0]
 is the possibly null leading separator.
-\&\fRIf
+If
 .I r
 is omitted,
 .B FPAT
@@ -3071,7 +3071,7 @@ between
 .BI a[ i ]
 and
 .BI a[ i +1]\fR.
-\&\fRIf
+If
 .I r
 is a single space, then leading whitespace in
 .I s
@@ -3084,6 +3084,10 @@ where
 is the return value of
 .BI split( s ", " a ", " r ", " seps )\fR.
 Splitting behaves identically to field splitting, described above.
+In particular, if
+.I r
+is a single-character string, that string acts as the separator,
+even if it happens to be a regular expression metacharacter.
 .TP
 .BI sprintf( fmt , " expr-list" )
 Print
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