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This file lists future projects and enhancements for gawk. Items are listed
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in roughly the order they will be done for a given release. This file is
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mainly for use by the developer(s) to help keep themselves on track, please
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don't bug us too much about schedules or what all this really means.
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(An `x' indicates that some progress has been made, but that the feature is
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not complete yet.)
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For 2.16
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x Move to autoconf-based configure system.
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x Research awk `fflush' function.
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x Generalize IGNORECASE
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any value makes it work, not just numeric non-zero
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make it apply to *all* string comparisons
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x Fix FILENAME to have an initial value of "", not "-"
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In 2.17
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x Allow RS to be a regexp.
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RT variable to hold text of record terminator
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RECLEN variable for fixed length records
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Feedback alloca.s changes to FSF
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x Split() with null string as third arg to split up strings
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x Analogously, setting FS="" would split the input record into individual
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characters.
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x Clean up code by isolating system-specific functions in separate files.
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Undertake significant directory reorganization.
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x Extensive manual cleanup:
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Use of texinfo 2.0 features
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Lots more examples
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Document all of the above.
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x Go to POSIX regexps
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Make regex + dfa less dependant on gawk header file includes
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Additional manual features:
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Document posix regexps
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Document use of dbm arrays
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? Add an error messages section to the manual
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? A section on where gawk is bounded
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regex
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i/o
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sun fp conversions
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For 2.18
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DBM storage of awk arrays. Try to allow multiple dbm packages
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General sub functions:
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edit(line, pat, sub) and gedit(line, pat, sub)
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that return the substituted strings and allow \1 etc. in the sub
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string.
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? Have strftime() pay attention to the value of ENVIRON["TZ"]
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For 2.19
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Add chdir and stat built-in functions.
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Add function pointers as valid variable types.
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Add an `ftw' built-in function that takes a function pointer.
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Do an optimization pass over parse tree?
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For 2.20 or later:
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Add variables similar to C's __FILE__ and __LINE__ for better diagnostics
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from within awk programs.
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Add an explicit concatenation operator and assignment version.
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? Add a switch statement
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Add the ability to seek on an open file and retrieve the current file position.
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Add lint checking everywhere, including check for use of builtin vars.
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only in new awk.
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"restart" keyword
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Add |&
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Make awk '/foo/' files... run at egrep speeds
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Do a reference card
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Allow OFMT and CONVFMT to be other than a floating point format.
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Allow redefining of builtin functions?
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Make it faster and smaller.
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For 3.x:
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Create a gawk compiler?
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Create a gawk-to-C translator? (or C++??)
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Provide awk profiling and debugging.
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