From 6ae08e872756cbc6f4574780f015c47afb6acdaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Arnold D. Robbins" Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 17:31:59 +0300 Subject: Minor doc update. --- doc/gawk.texi | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/gawk.texi') 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 + Finally, the @code{patsplit()} function makes the same functionality available for splitting regular strings (@pxref{String Functions}). -- cgit v1.2.3