From: kasal@... (Stepan Kasal)
Date: 2002-07-10T23:09:20+09:00
Subject: [OT] Re: String#split converts string args to regexes -- ?

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:41:08 GMT, David Alan Black wrote:
> I'm probably OT here, but I'm very curious about this....  What is it
> in AWK that behaves this way (one-char string as string, multi-char
> converted to regex)? 

the special variable FS (field separator), the third parameter to the
function split() and, in awk which have it (eg. GNU awk), the record
separator (RS).   See "info gawk" for details.

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Stepan Kasal