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Re: [bug-gawk] typo in documentation
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Aharon Robbins |
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Re: [bug-gawk] typo in documentation |
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Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:26:54 +0200 |
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Hi.
> From: Michael Wookey <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:34:20 +1100
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [bug-gawk] typo in documentation
>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed this typo in "Gawk: Effective AWK Programming" (April 29, 2014).
>
> The text is:
>
> ----
> As written, the regexp used for 'FPAT' requires that each field have
> a least one character. A straightforward modification (changing changed
> the first '+' to '*') allows fields to be empty:
> ----
>
> The word 'changed' should be removed.
>
> Cheers
Thanks for the note. It happens that I came across this problem this
week and fixed it. I also fixed the second typo in this paragraph
(can you spot it? :-)
Thank you for taking the time to send in a report.
Arnold