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@@ -48,13 +48,22 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0 11. Gawk now supports retryable I/O via PROCINFO[input-file, "RETRY"]; see the manual. -12. The API minor version has been increased to two; the get_file() +12. The API minor version has been increased to 2; the get_file() API provides access to open redirections. Also see the manual. 13. Revisions in the POSIX standard remove the special case for POSIX mode when FS = " " where newline was not a field separator. The code and doc have been updated. +14. Gawk now supports strongly typed regexp constants. Such constants + look like @/.../. You can assign them to variables, pass them to + functions, use them in ~, !~ and the case part of a switch statement. + More details are provided in the manual. + +15. The new typeof() function can be used to indicate if a variable or + array element is an array, regexp, string or number. The isarray() + function is deprecated in favor of typeof(). + Changes from 4.1.2 to 4.1.3 --------------------------- |