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From: | arnold |
Subject: | Re: [bug-gawk] Read one character at a time |
Date: | Wed, 23 Jan 2019 04:44:36 -0700 |
User-agent: | Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 |
Manuel Collado <address@hidden> wrote: > But why RS="" doesn't deliver each input character as a record? It gives > the whole file as a single record. This seems to be inconsistent w.r.t. > FS="". The latter lets each character to become a field. > > I've not found an explicit mention to RS="" in the docs. Maybe I'm > missing something, See https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Multiple-Line.html#Multiple-Line which answers your questions. Arnold
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