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Diffstat (limited to 'gawkapi.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | gawkapi.h | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -171,15 +171,12 @@ typedef struct awk_input { * on the value of *errcode (e.g., setting *errcode = errno should do * the right thing). * - * If field_width is non-NULL, then its value will be initialized - * to NULL, and the function may set it to point to an array of - * structures supplying field width information to override the default - * gawk field parsing mechanism. The field_width array should have - * at least NF+1 elements, and the value of field_width[NF].skip - * must be negative. Note that these values are specified - * in bytes, not (potentially multi-byte) characters! And note that this - * array will not be copied by gawk; it must persist at least until the - * next call to get_record or close_func. Note that field_width will + * If field_width is non-NULL, then *field_width will be initialized + * to NULL, and the function may set it to point to a structure + * supplying field width information to override the default + * gawk field parsing mechanism. Note that this structure will not + * be copied by gawk; it must persist at least until the next call + * to get_record or close_func. Note also that field_width will * be NULL when getline is assigning the results to a variable, thus * field parsing is not needed. */ |