Re: gawk 3.1.1 documentation patch

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings.  Re this:

> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:21:56 +0200
> From: Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: gawk 3.1.1 documentation patch
>
> Hallo,
>       the attached patch fixes two flaws of gawk texinfo
> documentation:
> 1) FS="\n" is not regexp, just one-character string;

Actually, one character strings are simple regexes that just match
themselves.  They form the basic building blocks of more complicated
expressions such as `a+'.  This could perhaps be stated more clearly
in the doc.

> 2) the documentation of split() should also mention that split("",array)
>    clears the array.

This is mentioned later in the doc in one of the examples, but I'll
look at putting something about this into the main description of
split as well.

Thanks,

Arnold