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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2014-07-12 23:20:39 -0700
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
. if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq
. \}
.\}
-.TH GAWK 1 "Mar 08 2014" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
+.TH GAWK 1 "Jul 10 2014" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
.SH NAME
gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -2629,6 +2629,23 @@ Return the cosine of
.IR expr ,
which is in radians.
.TP
+.BI div( num ", " denom ", " result )
+Truncate
+.I num
+and
+.I denom
+to integers. Return the quotient of
+.I num
+divided by
+.I denom
+in \fIresult\fB["quotient"]\fR
+and the remainder in
+in \fIresult\fB["remainder"]\fR.
+This is a
+.I gawk
+extension, primarily of value when working with
+arbitrarily large integers.
+.TP
.BI exp( expr )
The exponential function.
.TP
@@ -3912,11 +3929,6 @@ The
.B \-F
option is not necessary given the command line variable assignment feature;
it remains only for backwards compatibility.
-.PP
-Syntactically invalid single character programs tend to overflow
-the parse stack, generating a rather unhelpful message. Such programs
-are surprisingly difficult to diagnose in the completely general case,
-and the effort to do so really is not worth it.
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR egrep (1),
.IR sed (1),