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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2018-06-11 20:36:19 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2018-06-11 20:36:19 +0300 |
| commit | 210ab15f91e781c7c9e660c5f897cb0918b70db0 (patch) | |
| tree | 62e898a55a61dc8895959624476497a38370e9c2 /doc/gawk.texi | |
| parent | e45f49c2abf38683327dff05da247ea5f3d401ac (diff) | |
| parent | c02d836a8cdfd0c26d56b4547dfef69a762a3576 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index adc1395c..70e5d18d 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -6588,6 +6588,13 @@ Using an unusual character such as @samp{/} is more likely to produce correct behavior in the majority of cases, but there are no guarantees. The moral is: Know Your Data. +@command{gawk} allows @code{RS} to be a full regular expression +(discussed shortly; @pxref{gawk split records}). Even so, using +a regular expression metacharacter, such as @samp{.} as the single +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}). |