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@@ -38597,27 +38597,22 @@ or more blank lines (empty lines or lines containing only a mixture of tabs and spaces). This means that, effectively, the record-separating sequences match the regular expression .codn "/\en[ \en\et]*\en/" . -There is a difference between paragraph mode and simply using the above + +There are two differences between paragraph mode and simply using the above regular expression as .codn rs . -The difference is that if the first record which is read upon entering +The first difference is that if the first record which is read upon entering paragraph mode is empty (because the input begins with a match for the -separator regex), then that record is thrown away, and the next record -is read. - -Note that the POSIX Awk paragraph mode (which occurs when -.code RS -is blank) there is an additional difference: regardless of the value -of the field separator -.codn FS , -newline characters separate fields. This behavior is not implemented -in the -.code awk -macro. Since newlines are included as separators in under the default field -separation, the behaviors match in that case. Code using a custom +separator regex), then that record is thrown away, and the next record is read. +The second difference is that, if field separation based on the +.code fs +variable is in effect, then regardless of the value of +.codn fs , +newline characters separate fields. Therefore, the programmer-defined .code fs -must explicitly include a match for newline to obtain that as a field -separator. +doesn't have to include a match for newline. Moreover, if it is a simple +fixed string, it need not be converted to a regular expression which also +matches a newline. .coNP Variable @ krs .desc |