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

[arnold]

Ed Morton <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thanks Arnold. I assume you meant to say whitespace is ' ' and '\t' and 
> '\n' on UNIX at least given:
>
>     $ printf 'a b\nc\n' | awk -v RS='#' '{print NR, NF; for (i=1; i<=NF;
>     i++) print i, "<" $i ">"}'
>     1 3
>     1 <a>
>     2 <b>
>     3 <c>

Fine.

> but is that still true on Windows or is it ' ' and '\t' and '\r\n' there 
> or something else? I don't have a Windows environment to test it in.

The only code in gawk that explicitly relates to '\r' is when reading source 
files.

Otherwise, gawk on windows expects that input files are either Unix style or 
that they
are opened in the mode that turns \r\n into \n.

Arnold