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@@ -3623,7 +3623,6 @@ 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.
@@ -4363,7 +4362,7 @@ 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
@@ -4393,7 +4392,6 @@ 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}.
@@ -7932,10 +7930,14 @@ 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}.