Re: [bug-gawk] Read one character at a time

[arnold]

Manuel Collado <address@hidden> wrote:

> But why RS="" doesn't deliver each input character as a record? It gives 
> the whole file as a single record. This seems to be inconsistent w.r.t. 
> FS="". The latter lets each character to become a field.
>
> I've not found an explicit mention to RS="" in the docs. Maybe I'm 
> missing something,

See 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Multiple-Line.html#Multiple-Line
which answers your questions.

Arnold