[gawk-diffs] [SCM] gawk branch, master, updated. gawk-4.1.0-2563-g38f2c2b

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commit 38f2c2b262c1329dd3c4919f027c5185f24fab0e
Author: Arnold D. Robbins <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue May 23 05:50:05 2017 +0300

    Update NEWS with info about FIELDWIDTHS.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2503f5f..c1737d9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -105,7 +105,11 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0
     from UTC instead of from the local timezone.
 
 26. The FIELDWIDTHS parsing syntax has been enhanced to allow specifying
-    how many characters to skip before a field starts.
+    how many characters to skip before a field starts. It also allows
+    specifying '*' as the last character to mean "the rest of the record".
+    Field splitting with FIELDWIDTHS now sets NF correctly.  The documentation
+    for FIELDWIDTHS in the manual has been considerably reorganized and
+    improved as well.
 
 27. An API input parser now has the ability to override the default field
     parsing mechanism by specifying the locations of each field in the input

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Summary of changes:
 NEWS | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


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