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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 1500c045..d22509ca 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -3712,7 +3712,6 @@ and Perl.} @node Intro Summary @section Summary -@c FIXME: Review this chapter for summary of builtin functions called. @itemize @value{BULLET} @item Programs in @command{awk} consist of @var{pattern}--@var{action} pairs. @@ -4452,7 +4451,7 @@ input files to be processed in the order specified. However, an argument that has the form @code{@var{var}=@var{value}}, assigns the value @var{value} to the variable @var{var}---it does not specify a file at all. (See @ref{Assignment Options}.) In the following example, -@var{count=1} is a variable assignment, not a @value{FN}: +@samp{count=1} is a variable assignment, not a @value{FN}: @example awk -f program.awk file1 count=1 file2 @@ -4482,7 +4481,6 @@ current element. (@command{gawk} makes the full command line, including program text and options, available in @code{PROCINFO["argv"]}; @pxref{Auto-set}.) -@c FIXME: One day, move the ARGC and ARGV node closer to here. Changing @code{ARGC} and @code{ARGV} in your @command{awk} program lets you control how @command{awk} processes the input files; this is described in more detail in @ref{ARGC and ARGV}. @@ -8334,10 +8332,14 @@ contain at least one character. A straightforward modification FPAT = "([^,]*)|(\"[^\"]+\")" @end example -@c FIXME: 4/2015 +@c 4/2015: @c Consider use of FPAT = "([^,]*)|(\"[^\"]*\")" @c (star in latter part of value) to allow quoted strings to be empty. @c Per email from Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net> +@c +@c WONTFIX: 10/2020 +@c This is too much work. FPAT and CSV files are very flakey and +@c fragile. Doing something like this is merely inviting trouble. As with @code{FS}, the @code{IGNORECASE} variable (@pxref{User-modified}) affects field splitting with @code{FPAT}. |