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@@ -5,6 +5,50 @@ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. +Changes from xxxx to 4.0.0 +-------------------------- + +1. The special files /dev/pid, /dev/ppid, /dev/pgrpid and /dev/user are + now completely gone. Use PROCINFO instead. + +2. The POSIX 2001 behavior for `sub' and `gsub' are now the default. + +3. The \s and \S escape sequences are now recognized in regular expressions. + +4. The split function accepts an optional fourth argument which is an array + to hold the values of the separators. + +5. New -b / --characters-as-bytes option that means "hands off my data"; gawk + won't try to treat input as a multibyte string. + +6. New --sandbox option; see the doc. + +7. Indirect function calls are now available. + +8. Interval expressions are now part of default regular expressions for + GNU Awk syntax. + +9. --gen-po is now correctly named --gen-pot. + +10. switch / case is now enabled by default. There's no longer a need + for a configure-time option. + +11. Gawk now supports BEGINFILE and ENDFILE. See the doc for details. + +12. Directories named on the command line now produce a warning, not + a fatal error, unless --posix or --traditional. + +13. The new FPAT variable allows you to specify a regexp that matches + the fields, instead of matching the field separator. The new patsplit() + function gives the same capability for splitting. + +14. All long options now have short options, for use in `#!' scripts. + +15. Support for IPv6 added via /inet6/... special file. /inet4/... forces + IPv4 and /inet chooses the system default (probably IPv4). + +16. Added a warning for /[:space:]/ that should be /[[:space:]]/. + Changes from 3.1.7 to 3.1.8 --------------------------- 1. The zero flag no longer applies to %c and %s; apparently the standards |