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mode when FS = " " where newline was not a field separator. The code
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and doc have been updated.
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15. Gawk now supports strongly typed regexp constants. Such constants
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look like @/.../. You can assign them to variables, pass them to
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functions, use them in ~, !~ and the case part of a switch statement.
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More details are provided in the manual.
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16. The new typeof() function can be used to indicate if a variable or
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array element is an array, regexp, string or number. The isarray()
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array element is an array, string or number. The isarray()
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function is deprecated in favor of typeof().
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17. As promised when 4.1 was released, the old extension mechanism,
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original input program.
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20. The extension API now provides a mechanism for generating nonfatal
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