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@@ -105,7 +105,11 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0 from UTC instead of from the local timezone. 26. The FIELDWIDTHS parsing syntax has been enhanced to allow specifying - how many characters to skip before a field starts. + how many characters to skip before a field starts. It also allows + specifying '*' as the last character to mean "the rest of the record". + Field splitting with FIELDWIDTHS now sets NF correctly. The documentation + for FIELDWIDTHS in the manual has been considerably reorganized and + improved as well. 27. An API input parser now has the ability to override the default field parsing mechanism by specifying the locations of each field in the input |