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Field Separator: gawk Documentation Issue


From: FischerR.External
Subject: Field Separator: gawk Documentation Issue
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:50:12 +0200

The documentation states that FS must be either a string of length
0 or 1, or a regexp.

The documentation does not say what happens if FS is a string of 
length greater than one. 

I think it would be clearer if either

- the documentation explains what happens if you set FS to such a string
(even if it says "undefined behaviour", it would be helpful), or

- that the implementation outputs an error message in this case

Ronald
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