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Re: minor documentation suggestion for FS values and "whitespace" in gen


From: Ed Morton
Subject: Re: minor documentation suggestion for FS values and "whitespace" in general
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 10:21:11 -0400
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Great, thanks!

On 4/2/2020 2:02 AM, address@hidden wrote:
Ed Morton <address@hidden> wrote:

Arnold - that definition is absolutely fine, I apparently missed it when
I was looking for it the other day.

If you look at node "gawk-Specific Regexp Operators"
(https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#GNU-Regexp-Operators),
though, it says:

     \s???? Matches any whitespace character. Think of it as shorthand for
     ???[[:space:]]???.

which seems to pretty clearly be saying that whitespace means
[[:space:]] ...
Thanks for pointing that out. I have changed this text.

Arnold



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