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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ . if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq . \} .\} -.TH GAWK 1 "June 25 2003" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" +.TH GAWK 1 "July 28 2004" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" .SH NAME gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -835,6 +835,15 @@ is zero, so all regular expression and string operations are normally case-sensitive. Under Unix, the full ISO 8859-1 Latin-1 character set is used when ignoring case. +As of +.I gawk +3.1.4, the case equivalencies are fully locale-aware, based on +the C +.B <ctype.h> +facilities such as +.BR isalpha() , +and +.BR tolupper() . .TP .B LINT Provides dynamic control of the @@ -912,6 +921,12 @@ the parent process ID of the current process. the value of the .IR getuid (2) system call. +.TP +\fBPROCINFO["version"]\fP +The version of +.IR gawk . +This is available from +version 3.1.4 and later. .RE .TP .B RS @@ -1678,7 +1693,6 @@ as follows: \fBdo \fIstatement \fBwhile (\fIcondition\fB)\fR \fBfor (\fIexpr1\fB; \fIexpr2\fB; \fIexpr3\fB) \fIstatement\fR \fBfor (\fIvar \fBin\fI array\fB) \fIstatement\fR -.\" \fBswitch (\fIexpression\fB) { \fBcase [\fIvalue\fB|\fIregex\fB] : \fIstatement \fBdefault: \fIstatement \fB}\fR \fBbreak\fR \fBcontinue\fR \fBdelete \fIarray\^\fB[\^\fIindex\^\fB]\fR @@ -3258,6 +3272,25 @@ This option should only be of interest to the maintainers, and may not even be compiled into .IR gawk . .. +.PP +If +.I gawk +is +.I configured +with the +.B \-\^\-enable\-switch +option to the +.I configure +command, then it accepts an additional control-flow statement: +.RS +.nf +\fBswitch (\fIexpression\fB) { +\fBcase \fIvalue\fB|\fIregex\fB : \fIstatement +\&.\^.\^. +\fR[ \fBdefault: \fIstatement \fR] +\fB}\fR +.fi +.RE .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES The .B AWKPATH @@ -3339,7 +3372,7 @@ and Martin Brown provided the BeOS port. .SH VERSION INFORMATION This man page documents .IR gawk , -version 3.1.3. +version 3.1.4. .SH BUG REPORTS If you find a bug in .IR gawk , @@ -3370,13 +3403,20 @@ While the developers occasionally read this newsgroup, posting bug reports there is an unreliable way to report bugs. Instead, please use the electronic mail addresses given above. +.PP +If you're using a GNU/Linux system or BSD-based system, +you may wish to submit a bug report to the vendor of your distribution. +That's fine, but please send a copy to the official email address as well, +since there's no guarantee that the bug will be forwarded to the +.I gawk +maintainer. .SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Brian Kernighan of Bell Laboratories provided valuable assistance during testing and debugging. We thank him. .SH COPYING PERMISSIONS Copyright \(co 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, -1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .PP Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual page provided the copyright notice and this permission |