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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ . if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq . \} .\} -.TH GAWK 1 "May 29 2001" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" +.TH GAWK 1 "Apr 16 2002" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" .SH NAME gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -923,6 +923,7 @@ specified by The index of the first character matched by .BR match() ; 0 if no match. +(This implies that character indices start at one.) .TP .B RLENGTH The length of the string matched by @@ -1494,16 +1495,14 @@ and For example, the name .B e might be used to represent all of -\*(lqe,\*(rq \*(lqe\h'-\w:e:u'\`,\*(rq and \*(lqe\h'-\w:e:u'\`.\*(rq +\*(lqe,\*(rq \*(lqe\h'-\w:e:u'\',\*(rq and \*(lqe\h'-\w:e:u'\`.\*(rq In this case, .B [[=e=]] is a regular expression that matches any of .BR e , -....BR "e\'" , .BR "e\h'-\w:e:u'\'" , or -....BR "e\`" . .BR "e\h'-\w:e:u'\`" . .PP These features are very valuable in non-English speaking locales. @@ -1677,7 +1676,7 @@ as follows: \fBdelete \fIarray\^\fB[\^\fIindex\^\fB]\fR \fBdelete \fIarray\^\fR \fBexit\fR [ \fIexpression\fR ] -\fB{ \fIstatements \fB} +\fB{ \fIstatements \fB}\fR .fi .RE .SS "I/O Statements" @@ -2322,6 +2321,7 @@ in the string or 0 if .I t is not present. +(This implies that character indices start at one.) .TP \fBlength(\fR[\fIs\fR]\fB) Returns the length of the string @@ -2629,6 +2629,35 @@ in \*(EP. You must also supply a text domain. Use .B TEXTDOMAIN if you want to use the current domain. +.TP +\fBdcngettext(\fIstring1 \fR, \fIstring2 \fR, \fInumber \fR[\fB, \fIdomain \fR[\fB, \fIcategory\fR]]\fB)\fR +Returns the plural form used for +.I number +of the translation of +.I string1 +and +.I string2 +in +text domain +.I domain +for locale category +.IR category . +The default value for +.I domain +is the current value of +.BR TEXTDOMAIN . +The default value for +.I category +is \fB"LC_MESSAGES"\fR. +.sp .5 +If you supply a value for +.IR category , +it must be a string equal to +one of the known locale categories described +in \*(EP. +You must also supply a text domain. Use +.B TEXTDOMAIN +if you want to use the current domain. .SH USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS Functions in \*(AK are defined as follows: .PP @@ -3224,14 +3253,6 @@ Syntactically invalid single character programs tend to overflow the parse stack, generating a rather unhelpful message. Such programs are surprisingly difficult to diagnose in the completely general case, and the effort to do so really is not worth it. -.ig -.PP -.I Gawk -suffers from ``feeping creaturism.'' -It's too bad -.I perl -is so inelegant. -.. .SH AUTHORS The original version of \*(UX .I awk @@ -3299,7 +3320,8 @@ Brian Kernighan of Bell Laboratories provided valuable assistance during testing and debugging. We thank him. .SH COPYING PERMISSIONS -Copyright \(co 1989, 1991\-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright \(co 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, +1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 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 |